68 The American Thoroughbred 



YOUNG GIANTESS, B M, 1790. 



Bred by Sir Charles Bunbury, and got by Diomed (Derby of 1780 and afterwards 

 sent to America. Her produce was : 



1796, SORCERER, bl c, by Trumpator. Won 16 races and got 180 winners of 82,108. 



1798, ELEANOR, by Whiskey. Won 28 races including the Derby and Oaks. Dam 

 of Muley by Orville and Active by Partisan. See pedigree of Springbok, by imp;. 

 Australian. 



T 799> JULIA, br f, by Whiskey. Best two-year-old of her year. She won 15 

 races altogether including the July -Stakes at Newmarket. Produced Phantom, who 

 won the Derby of 1811 and got Middleton and Cedric, winners of the Derby. 



1801, YOUNG WHISKEY, b c, by Whiskey. Never won. Sire of Erebus, winner 

 of 17 good races. 



1802, LYDIA, br f, by Whiskey. Won 13 good races and produced The Corporal. 

 1807, CRESSIDA, by Whiskey. Won 5 races and produced Priam, winner of the 



Derby in 1830, as well as of 2 Goodwood Cups, carrying 139 pounds in the last one. 



It seems that with the solitary exception of Sorcerer, all of Young Giantess' colts 

 were failures on the turf, while her fillies were extremely successful. Sorcerer was 

 a great sire. He got Smolensko, Derby winner of 1813, who got the St. Leger win- 

 ner Jerry; Soothsayer, St. Leger of 1811 and sire of Tiresias, who beat Sultan in the 

 Derby of 1819 ; and Comus, foaled in 1809 who was by far the best of his get though 

 he won no classic races. He won 10 events, including the Claret Stakes at Newmarket 

 and got Reveller and Matilda, winners of the St. Leger. His get won, in all 222 

 races of a value of 54,892, as well as three cups. He got that big and homely horse 

 Humphrey Clinker who was the sire of the great Melbourne, but for whom the male- 

 line of Matchem would now be extinct. 



MARPESSA, B M, 1830. 



By Muley out of Clare by Marmion (son of Whiskey) from Harpalice by Go- 

 hanna. She produced: 



1834, JEREMY DIDDLER, b c, by Jerry, sire of Sundeelah. 



1837, POCAHONTAS, b f, by Glencoe. 



1839, BOARDING SCHOOL Miss, ch f, by Plenipotentiary. She produced Rose de 

 Florence by the Flying Dutchman. Sent to Australia. Rose de Florence produced 

 five good winners and two good sires, Maribyrnong and King of the Ring. The former 

 got 4 winners of the Derby, and 6 of the St. Leger and 2 of the Oaks, all colonial of 

 course. King of the Ring got First King, who was, in 1876, probably the best horse 

 in the world at three miles. 



3 POCAHONTAS, B. M. 1837. 



Bred by Mr. Forth and got by Glencoe out of Marpessa above. She produced : 



1843, CAMBAULES, by Camel, sire of Touchstone. 



1848, INDIANA, br. f. by Muley Moloch. Sent to Ireland and started twice with- 

 out success. 



1849, STOCKWELL, ch. c. by The Baron. Won the Two Thousand and St. Leger 

 at three and the Whip at five. Won 12 races in all out of 17 starts. Headed the 

 Sires' List 7 seasons. 



