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Shrewsbury, five years, 119 pounds; Havoc, four years, 97 pounds, and Bonaparte and 

 Victor Emmanuel unplaced. 



In his first season he got Bartizan, Countess Thierry, Polynesia, Pippin, The Skip- 

 per and Winkfield, the latter being the sire of that wonderful handicap horse, Wink- 

 field's Pride. The next year he got Morion, winner of the Ascot Cup of 1891 ; in which 

 year his daughter Mimi (afterwards dam of St. Maclou) won the Oaks and One Thou- 

 sand; and in 1895 Sir Visto added to his crown by winning both the Derby and 

 St. Leger. Barcaldine was three times mated with the Oaks winner Geheimniss and 

 got three horses called Odd Fellow, Grand Master and Free Mason, all since imported 

 into America, the last two being in Canada and the former in Kentucky, where he is 

 owned by Mr. Christopher Chirm. I must say I was never worse disappointed than in 

 him for, on his breeding, he ought to overtop everything in that state. 



Barcaldine was a very coarse horse, to judge by the only picture I ever saw of 

 him. It was a big oil painting, 8x5^2 feet* and hung in the rooms of A. J. C. in 

 Sydney. There was once a horse called Tom Crib, by Gladiator, imoorted to this coun- 

 try for the purpose of breeding high-class farm and coach horses, and said to bje 

 coarse enough for a bull, but if he was any coarser than Barcaldine, I am very much 

 astonished. Barcaldine was very much inbred, his fourth dam the Hetman Platoff 

 mare out of Whim (Chanticleer's dam) by Drone being also the third dam of his 

 sire, Solon, who got Arbitrator, above mentioned. That is, to my notion, closer im- 

 breeding than the examples of Chester and Sir Modred, given in the Australian chapter 

 of this work. The daughters of Barcaldine, both here and in England, have bred 

 well, with the solitary exception of Mr. Belmont's Kate Allen, whom I deemed the best 

 of all his importations, she being a full sister to that good horse, Bartizan. But Kate 

 was a disappointment and was sent to the auction block about two years ago. If she 

 is still alive, it is to be hoped she will be mated with a St. Simon horse if one can be 

 found that has a daughter of Hampton or Macaroni for his dam. 



I have now progressed so far in this work that anything I say with reference to the 

 English horse must be confined to the last twenty-five years. The leading stallions 

 about 1880 were Galopin, Hampton and Springfield, just coming on, and Hermit and 

 Blair Athol, just beginning to fall into "the sere and yellow leaf." Hampton was 

 always belittled because his owner had bought him out of a selling race, while Spring- 

 field was generally overrated and Galopin received his du&-ineed of praise. Galopin 

 was a dark bay pony, certainly not over fifteen hands and an inch high and tracing to 

 the same tap-root as Stockwell and King Tom. His dam, Flying Duchess, by the air- 

 exploring Hollander, had previously produced a mare called Vex that won the Stew- 

 ards' Cup at Goodwood. The next dam was Merope (third dam of our imported 

 Eothen) by Voltaire out of the Juniper mare, foaled 1817, that produced Velocipede, 

 by many deemed the best son of Blacklock. Now there was a pedigree hot enough to 

 fry eggs with, and Galopin was clearly bred in sire-producing lines. Of his per- 

 formances it is only necessary to say that he never was beaten at weight-for-age and 

 never lost a race unless he was handicapped out of it. He won the Derby of 1875 in a 

 common canter from Claremont (brother to our imported Stonehenge) and the colt 

 by Macaroni-Repentance ; and in the fall of that year he was matched against the St. 

 Leger winner, Craig Millar, in a race "across the flat," whom he could not h'-ve beaten 

 worse if he had been anchored. Next spring came the 2,500 match against Lowlander 

 who was the fastest sprinter of that year. He was by Dalesman (brother to our im- 

 ported Camilla) out of Lufra (dam of our dear little Midlothian) by Windhound ; and 

 he had never been beaten at seven furlongs and only once at a mile, but Galopin "donkey 

 licked" him, as they say in the Australian colonies. At the stud, Galopin got Dono- 

 van, winner of the Derby and St. Leger ; Disreali and Galliard, winners of the Two 

 Thousand ; and two winners of the One Thousand. 



But the greatest horse he ever got was St. Simon, who won ten races off the reel 



