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find? That he won the Riddesworth Stakes, the Two Thousand Guineas and Good- 

 wood Cup at three ; the Ascot Gold Cup at four ; and walked over for The Whip (four 

 miles) at five. How many great race horses make such a showing for consistency as 

 that? Then take him as a sire in America and you find that he headed the list of 

 sires five seasons, was seven times second and three times third, being third in 1861, 

 four years after his death, having no two-year-olds and only two three-year-olds to 

 run for him. And another thing, no horse that ever defeated him for a premiership 

 of the American stud, ever held that distinction for more than one year. Glencoe 

 was quite as well entitled to be called "the immortal'' as was either Touchstone or 

 Stockwell. They talk about the renaissance of Blacklock's line in England, after years 

 of obscurity caused principally by calumny and persecution ; it is remarkable of course, 

 but not half as much so as that of Glencoe in America, for in 1860, you could hardly 

 give away a son of Glencoe for stud purposes, while his daughters commanded all 

 sorts of big prices for mating with the deservedly great Lexington. 



The Matchem line in England, since 'the exportation of The Peer, Middlesex and 

 Tow ton to the antipodes, is now represented solely through the lines of West Australian 

 and Young Melbourne. The latter amounted to but little save as a broodmare sire, 

 but his daughters were unquestionably great producers. Young Melbourne got 

 Strafford, Pell Mell, Brother to Strafford, Rapid Rhone and Knight of the Garter, 

 but I don's know of his lines being perpetuated through any of these, save Pell Mell, who 

 got that great cup horse Carlton, who won the Chester, Manchester and Doncaster Cups 

 ail in the season of 1887, besides running third in the Cesarewitch in which he was giv- 

 ing twenty-four pounds for one year to the winner, Humewood. Carlton got that de- 

 termined finisher, Carlton Grange, now located in Kentucky as the property of that 

 ambitious young breeder, Mr. James E. Clay. As Matchem blood is somewhat scarce 

 in England, I cannot understand how they came to let so good a horse as Carlton 

 Grange get away from them, especially when we consider his close relationship to 

 Hawkstone and Prisoner in England ; and to that "gamest of the game" at the anti- 

 podes, Australian Peer, who beat Abercorn whenever the pace was hot from the fall of 

 the flag. Now we have another male-line of Melbourne in America, through imported 

 Darebin (pronounced as if spelt "Dah-ray-bin," with the accent on the second sylla- 

 ble; brought to this country by Mr. J. B. Haggin. The reader is referred to the Aus- 

 tralian chapter of this book for further particulars concerning this enormous, and 

 therefore legitimate, descendant of the mighty Humphrey Clinker. 



Most all the Matchem blood now in England comes from the descendants of West 

 Australian, through Solon, who got Barcaldine and Arbitrator, the latter being a good 

 horse but in nowise the equal of the former. Arbitrator got Kilwarlin, who won the 

 St. Leger after being virtually left at the post. Barcaldine, on the other hand, was 

 a giant among giants. Following are some of his best performances, he winning 

 twelve races, mostly with heavy weights and without a single defeat: 



1880. Won the Railway Stakes, National Produce Stakes, Paget Stakes and Beres- 

 ford Stakes. 



1881. Won the Baldoyle Derby, Queen's Plate (2 miles) at the Curragh, Queen's 

 Plate (three miles) at Roscrea and next day walked over for another Royal Plate 

 at two and one-half miles. 



1882. Barcaldine now "carried the war into Africa" by going over to England, 

 where he won the Westminster Plate at Kempton Park, conceding forty-one pounds to 

 Lucerne, who ran third, Tristan being second. He next won the Epsom Stakes at a 

 mile and a half, beating Witchcraft, Beauty, Picador and Retreat, giving the first 

 named thirty-nine pounds. He then won the Orange Cup, three miles, beating Faugh- 

 a-Ballagh (by Lord Gough) over sixty yards in a canter. He wound up that season 

 by starting as second choice in the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle with 136 

 pounds up, at a mile and a half, which he won by two lengths from the favorite 



