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in Thormanby's Derby. Umpire won eighteen races in England and Iroquois won nine 

 out of thirteen; and any man who will take the trouble to read up the race for the 

 Citv and Suburban of 1872, in which Umpire, a year older than Adventurer, gave 

 him just thirty pounds and was beaten barely a neck, will arrive at the conclusion that 

 if ever there was as good a horse as Foxhall sent from America to England, it was 

 Umpire and not Iroquois." 



So you can see what Mr. Ten Broeck thought of Thormanby, who not only won 

 a Derby but confirmed it by winning the Ascot Cup a year later. He never got a Derby 

 nor a St. Leger winner but got two of the Two Thousand in Charibert and Atlantic 

 (the latter a great sire in France) and Hester, a winner of the One Thousand, she 

 being out of Tomyris, the grand dam of Prince Charlie. Mated with the latter horse, 

 Hester produced Prince Rudolph, imported into British Columbia and the heaviest- 

 boned horse that ever crossed the American Continent. (A letter dated at Victoria, 

 B. C, on the 29th of September, from Prince Rudolph's owner, tells me that the old 

 horse broke his leg on the Mallowmot Farm in July and had to be shot. More's the 

 pity.) 



Thormanby and Buccaneer must therefore be put down as the only really good 

 Herod horses in the British stud between 1850 and 1890. Several male-line descend- 

 ants of the Flying Dutchman proved to be good sires in that period but they were all 

 located in France. One of them was Salvator, brother to Salvanos, a French horse 

 that won the Cesarewitch Handicap of 1872, being by Dollar (Goodwood Cup of 1864) 

 out of Sauvagine by Ion, from Cuckoo by Elis. He had three Herod crosses straight 

 on each side of him. Salvator is the only horse in history to win both the French 

 Derby and the Grand Prix de Paris ; and so much was he admired by English breed- 

 ers that several mares were sent across the Channel to him. One of these was Music 

 by Stockwell out of One Act by Annandale, she being the mare which beat Fandango 

 (by Barnton) a neck for the Chester Cup of 1856, carrying 76 pounds to his 123. From 

 this union of Salvator with Music came Ossian, who won the St. Leger of 1883, with 

 Chislehurst second and Highland Chief third. Ossian was sold to J. B. Ferguson, of 

 Lexington, Ky., but the steamer encountered very heavy weather on the passage over 

 and Ossian died of exhaustion before the voyage was completed. 



I have mentioned "Old Tom" Parr several times as I went along in this work. He 

 was a peculiar and a clear-cut character being, like many good trainers I have known 

 in America, a man of next to no education at all. He was owner of such great cup horses 

 as Rataplan, Fisherman and Fandango, winning the Ascot, Stockbridge and Doncaster 

 Cups all in one season with the latter horse, all of which were discoveries of his save 

 the first named, which he purchased from the estate of Samuel Thelluson, deceased. 

 Mr. Parr also won the St. Leger with Saucebox, although Rifleman was clearly the 

 best horse in the race and would have won but for a vexatious delay at the post. Parr 

 had a mania for betting and, in spite of his enormous winnings, was always more or 

 less in debt to the "bookies." At last he became "a back number" and his friends fell 

 away from him. At the age of 79 he was committed to a workhouse in Staffordshire, 

 where he died at the age of 94. A few hours before his death he was telling some of 

 the other inmates about the Chester Cup race wherein One Act beat Fandango at his 

 enormous concession of weight ; and laughing as heartily as if the race had made him 

 a millionaire instead of starting him "over the hills to the poorhouse," for he never 

 recovered from the effects of that race. 



Thormanby got but few good sires, Atlantic being the best. He was sent to France 

 while Glengarry, who won the Prince of Wales' Stakes at Ascot, was imported into 

 Tennessee, where he got some fairly good horses like Greenland, who won the Metro- 

 politan Handicap at Jerome Park when it was two miles. England seems to have been 

 singularly unlucky about selling great sires. She sold to the United States, Glencoe, 

 the best son of Sultan ; to France she sold Gladiator, who, as a stud horse, was worth 



