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Camarine defeated Rowton for the Ascot Cup of 1831. The two leaders were never 

 unlocked during the race, and the struggle was so severe that the Judge declined to 

 place the third horse, Dutch Skater, who was nearly eighty yards away, and at least 

 twenty ahead of Barford and Wheatear. 



The best exponent of the Joe Andrews line, therefore, is Rosicrucian, now about 

 seven years dead with a possible exception in favor of the Australian horse Golds- 

 brough, who is described at length in the Australian chapter of this work. Golds- 

 brough and Rosicrucian both got great broodmares but no sons worthy of mention as 

 sires. Althotas, uy Rosicrucian, got a pretty fair horse in Button Park, but the line 

 is nearly gone in England and quite so in America. Vasco di Gama, a full brother 

 to Pero Gomez, together with his sister, Arapeile, was sent to Australia, but achieved 

 nothing of any great note. Tim Whiffler was another Tramp horse sent to the land 

 of the Kangaroo, after winning the Chester and Goodwood Cups of 1862. He was by 

 Van Galen, son of Van Tromp, and he by Lanercost, out of Sybil by The Ugly Buck, 

 son of Venison. Tim Whiffler got the only filly ever to win the Melbourne Cup, and 

 she also won the Victoria Derby in the same year ; and he was also the sire of Darri- 

 well, a Melbourne Cup winner also. I have heard nothing of that line in Australia for 

 the past ten years and naturally conclude that it is fully as weak in Australia as in 

 England. And having disposed of the Joe Andrews branch of Eclipse's line, I come 

 back to the earlier Herod lines that have survived up to the present writing. 



SIR PETER was the best exponent of the No. 3 family, barring Stockwell, as he was 

 covering long before the One Thousand and Two Thousand Guinea races were started; 

 and, consequently, the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger are the only means of comparison 

 between the two. And here you see how they range up beside each other : 



STOCKWELL SIR PETER 



Winners of the Derby 3 4 



Winners of the Oaks i 2 



Winners of the St. Leger '. 6 4 



10 10 



So you see the Derby hero of 1/87 held his own pretty well, being three points 

 ahead of Melbourne and five ahead of King Tom in winners of the above races. Like 

 Whalebone, who came twenty years after him, Sir Peter was very unlucky with his 

 Derby winners. From Horatia by Eclipse he got Paris and Archduke, both Derby 

 winners and of no earthy value as sires, while Stamford, a full brother to these two 

 brilliants, is to be found in the pedigree of every great horse on earth, from four to 

 a dozen times. He got the dams of Mameluke and Emilius, both Derby winners ; of 

 Master Henry, a winner of the Whip and sire of that ereat mare, Banter; and the grand 

 dam of Don John and Hetinan Platoff, both horses of exceptional merit. And I have 

 never been able to find any performances by Stamford, nothwithstanding I have been 

 doing considerable reading in the past forty years on English turf history. Sir Peter 

 got Walton, foaled 1799 and a sort of hard-luck horse; and his full brother, William- 

 son's Ditto, winner of the Derby of 1803. I can find the latter horse only as sire of 

 Luzborough, imported to this country ; and of Bacchante, dam of the great Sultan, 

 who ran second to Tiresias in the Derby of 1819 and who is the greatest sire of extreme 

 speed to the present writing, being the only sire with five winners of the Two Thou- 

 sand Guineas to his credit, Touchstone and Stockwell having each four. Walton was a 

 good racehorse and got Phantom, the Derby winner of 1811, and St. Patrick, who won 

 the St. Leger of 1820. Walton also got the noted stallion, Partisan, who ranks next 

 to Sultan as a sire of extreme speed. Partisan got Mameluke, Derby winner of 1827; 

 Cyprian, Oaks winner in 1836, and Patron, who won the Two Thousand. Phantom got 

 two Derby winners in consecutive years, Middleton and Cedric; Cobweb, who won the 

 Oaks and One Thousand in 1824, and Pindarrie and Enamel, winners of the Two 



