j8 The American Thoroughbred 



Oaks in 1831 ; Mango, the St. Leger winner in 1837 and probably as poor a horse as 

 ever won it; Riddlesworth, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, and three of the 

 One Thousand Guineas.. And for all that the male-line of Beningbrough, through Or- 

 ville, Emilius and Muley is now extinct, while that of Hambletonian through Black- 

 lock, Voltaire, Voltigeur, Vedette, Galopin and St. Simon, now stands at the head of 

 the British turf, having headed the list of winning sires for fourteen years out of the 

 past sixteen. History teems with revenge. 



Therefore, the only three Eclipse lines now extant are those which come down 

 to us through Hambletonian, Joe Andrews and Waxy ; the only Herod lines are those 

 through Sir Peter and Buzzard. And the only Matchem line that comes to us is 

 that handed down through Comus, whose dam was by Sir Peter; Humphrey Clinker, 

 whose dam was by a son of St. Peter ; and Melbourne, but for whom the male-line of 

 Matchem would now be extinct. The Gohanna branch of Eclipse blood became extinct 

 in 1894, his l as t male-line representative being Warwick, by Hubbard, out of May- 

 flower (dam of Joe Hooker, a really good sire) by imported Eclipse, son of Orlando. 

 Gohanna was foaled in 1790 and ran second to Waxy in the Derby. He was subsequent- 

 ly matched against Waxy at two miles and beat him. Gohanna got Cardinal Beaufort 

 and Election, winners of the Derby. The best representative of this line in England was 

 Catton and in America the game little Revenue, his grandson. 



WAXY was undoubtedly the best exponent of Eclipse's male-line, for while that 

 of 'Hambletonian was always considered good, it never became really great until the 

 advent of Galopin and his great son, St. Simon. Waxy's line, on the other hand, 

 was always great. He got four winners of the Derby in Waxy Pope, Whalebone, 

 Blucher and Whisker, the latter being by far the handsomest of the quartette. From 

 1878 to 1892 the Whisker branch of Waxy blood was ahead of the Whalebone branch 

 in Australia, but not in Europe or America. The dam of Waxy Pope was Prunella 

 by Highflyer ; and she was the second dam of Whalebone and Whisker, as well as 

 Woful, mentioned above. From this line of mares, in later generations, came Mid- 

 dleton, Derby winner of 1825 ; Glencoe, who won the Two Thousand Guineas and 

 Goodwood Cup at three years and the Ascot Cup at four; Bay Middleton (never 

 beaten), who won the Two Thousand and the Derby of 1836; and Princess and Pas- 

 tille, winners of the Oaks. No wonder Mr. Bruce Lowe made this the No. i family 

 in his figure system. W T axy was the sire of Whalebone, a winner for six consecutive 

 seasons and sire of three Derby winners (conceding that he was the true sire of 

 Moses), and Caroline, winner of the Oaks in 1820. 



But none of Whalebone's Derby winners were of any account as sires. We had 

 the misfortune to import one of them, Lapdog, full brother to Spaniel, who won the 

 same race in 1831. The only sires that Whalebone got were Camel, foaled in 1822; 

 Sir Hercules, foaled in 1826, and Defence, foaled in 1818. The male line of Defence, 

 through The Emperor and Monarque, still exists in France, but is very weak and is 

 extinct elsewhere. Camel was a very big and rangy horse with a decided verging to- 

 ward coarseness; and as far as I have been able to read, an inferior performer. Sir 

 Hercules was gotten by Whalebone when he was eighteen years old and was about the 

 last of his progeny, besides being his best. In conformation he was the direct antitheton 

 of Camel, being barely fifteen and one-half hands high and the most compact horse 

 ever seen in England up to this day. From the center of the breast to the hind part 

 of the shoulder; from the hind part of the shoulder to the hip; and from the hip to 

 the whirlbone, the three measures were exactly identical. Is it any wonder that he 

 got two such great sires as Birdcatcher and Faugh-a-Ballagh ? Sir Hercules got Cor- 

 onation, winner of the Derby in 1841 ; Faugh-a-Ballagh, winner of the St. Leger of 

 1844; Corsair, who won the Two Thousand of 1839; Lifeboat, winner of the Great 

 Metropolitan ; and Hyllus, who won the Goodwood Cup, after having been second and 

 third for it in the two previous years, together with two winners each of the Chester 



