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Cup, Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire handicaps. No intelligent reader can say that 

 he was not a sire among sires. 



CAMEL got two St. Leger winners, full brothers, Touchstone in 1834 and Launcelot 

 in 1840. The latter was as great a failure in the stud as his brother was a success; 

 and he was as much handsomer horse than Touchstone as one horse could be handsomer 

 than another. Camel also got Wintonian, brother to that great broodmare, Hester ; 

 and Wintonian got Rhedycina, who won the Oaks of 1850. Camel's reputation, as a 

 sire of sires, must therefore rest upon Touchstone entirely. Touchstone does not ap- 

 pear to have been any great three-year-old, although he won the St. Leger, because he 

 was twice beaten by General Chasse (by Actaeon), only a fair horse. But at four, 

 five and six years old, Touchstone was one of the two best long-distance horses in 

 England, Glencoe being the other. Touchstone won the Ascot Cups of i836-'37 and 

 the Doncaster Cups of i835-'36; and as Caravan, by the same sire, won the Ascot 

 Cup in 1839, this made Camel sire of three Ascot Cup winners, a record equalled only 

 by Sterling, a male-line descendant of Sir Hercules, about fifty years later. And here 

 I must drop the Waxy branch of Eclipse, for the present, and crawl back to the 

 Hambletonian line, now so famous in England though not so good here. 



HAMBLETONIAN, St. Leger winner of 1795, got two fairly good sires in Camillus 

 and Whitelock. Camillus got Treasure, by long odds the greatest mare (considered 

 as an ancestress, of course) in the whole No. 2 family; and he also got Oiseau, sire 

 of Rowton, St. Leger winner of 1829, in which he beat Voltaire, who was worth a 

 ten-acre lot full of Rowtons as a sire, Sir Hercules being third in that race. Of 

 Whitelock I know nothing, save that he was the sire of Blacklock, second to Ebor in 

 the St. Leger of 1817 and beat him afterwards, as well as nearly .every other horse 

 that started against him after he reached his fourth year. All accounts agree that 

 Blacklock lost the great northern race through bad riding; and who, at this late day, 

 ever hears of Ebor? Blacklock is described as a large and splendidly bodied horse 

 with an ugly and fiddle-shaped head. Query, how long did it take the English breeders 

 to find out that a horse does not run with his head? 



BLACKLOCK got Voltaire, who ran second in the St. Leger of 1829 and won the 

 Doncaster Cup in the same week; Brutandorf, out of Mandane (dam of the great 

 Lottery), winner of the Chester Cup in 1826; Laurel, third in the St. Leger of 1827 and 

 winner of the Doncaster Cup in 1828; and Samarcand, winner of numerous races that 

 I have forgotten. From 1840 to 1865, ask any English breeding expert as to which was 

 the best branch of Blacklock's line and he would answer "through Brutandorf" without 

 one moment's hesitation. Since then the Brutandorf line has become almost, if not 

 entirely extinct ; and the Voltaire branch, through Vedette, is now at the head of the 

 English turf, Galopin heading the list at 25 years of age, while his son, the great St. 

 Simon, heads the list for nine seasons, as against seven each for Stockwell and Hermit, 

 the two best exponents of the lines of Sir Hercules and Camel. Never in the world's 

 history did any other horse suffer so much calumny and persecution as did old Black- 

 lock. That his descendant, St. Simon, should get five winners of the Oaks, as against 

 three each for King Tom, Melbourne, Priam and Waxy, is honor enough, but he also 

 got five of the One Thousand Guineas, as against three for Emilius, the only other 

 horse to get three. Old Blacklock, if he were alive, could truthfully say that "Revenge 

 is sweet." I must now go back to Joe Andrews and his great son, Dick Andrews, sire 

 of that marvelous little horse, Tramp. 



JOE ANDREWS, named after a noted prize-fighter of that era, was by Eclipse, out of 

 Amanda by Omnium. He got Dick Andrews, a fair racehorse out of a Highflyer mare, 

 from a mare by Cardinal Puff. Dick Andrews got Tramp, the first three-year-old 

 to win the Doncaster Cup, in 1814, when that race was run at four miles ; and Tramp's 

 defeat at that distance, at five years old, by Prime Minister (son of Sancho) was one 

 of the things that never could be explained. Dick Andrews got Manuella, winner of 



