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to history as the horse that saved the male line of Glencoe from total extinction. 

 Already we have seen the male line of Glencoe (through Hanover) pre-eminent for 

 four seasons and second by the narrowest of margins in the fifth ; and from present 

 appearances, his son Hamburg is making a very earnest effort to keep up the family 

 traditions. The renaissance of this remarkable strain of blood, so powerless in its 

 male line from 1860 to 1880 and so strong now, is as great as the uprising of Blacklock's 

 line in England, after a half-century of calumny and persecution. "Truth, crushed to 

 earth, shall rise again." 



We are now about as badly off as were the Australians in 1862 when they were so 

 overstocked with Eclipse blood that the importation of a Herod stallion (Fisherman) 

 was a God-send to them ; and Talk o' the Hill, another Herod horse and a grandson of 

 Pocahontas, a Herod mare, completed the work of rejuvenation that Fisherman had 

 begun. Even in our own country, we have seen the achievements of another Herod 

 horse, Sir Modred, but we must in all candor, remember that the pedigree of that 

 dead hero showed 53% per cent of Eclipse blood. The wonderful success of Han- 

 over's sons in the stud (and of Hanover himself, for that matter) is surprising only 

 in that Hanover was deficient in sire blood, for he was a horse of almost perfect 

 conformation ; and it is to his marvelous individuality, which he impressed so dis- 

 tinctly on all his get, rather than to all other causes combined, that I ascribe Hanover's 

 great success in the stud. The success of Hamburg, a sire of two Futurity winners 

 and fillies at that at nine years old is something to be conjured with; and Hand- 

 spring, Handsel, Buck Massie and others bringing up the rest of the parade, it looks 

 as if the male line of Glencoe, through Hanover, had "come to stay." 



The decadence of the blood of Emilius in America, is something quite as remark- 

 able as it was in England. Emilius won the Derby in 1823 and got Priam and 

 Plenipotentiary, winners of the Derby ; Mango, winner of the St. Leger ; Riddlesworth. 

 of the Two Thousand Guineas ; Oxygen, winner of the Oaks in 1831 ; and three fillies 

 that not only won the One Thousand Guineas, but were better than the fourth in the 

 Oaks. He was clearly the best stallion in England from 1822 to 1842, after which his 

 lead grew rapidly less. America was unfortunate enough to import six sons of 

 Emilius, to-wit : Ambassador, foaled in 1836, out of Trapes by Tramp ; Mango, out 

 of Mustard by Merlin, foaled 1834; Mercer, foaled 1836, out of Young Mouse (winner 

 of the 1000 guineas) by Godolphin ; Riddlesworth, foaled 1828. out of Filagree, dam of 

 Cobweb, the Oaks winner ; Sarpedon, foaled 1828, out of Icaria by The Flyer ; 

 Sovereign, foaled 1836, out of Fleur de Lis by Bourbon; and the most careless reader 

 will see that the male line of Emilius did not run out for the want of good dams for 

 the horses above named. Fleur de Lis was by twelve pounds the best mare of her 

 day for she won the Doncaster Cup once and the Goodwood Cup twice, in addition to 

 being second for it, to Priam, on her third attempt. It was for crooked work in this 

 race with Priam that the then King of England, William IV., owner of Fleur de Lis, 

 was ruled off the turf for life by the Jockey Club ; and that is the way that Col. Wade 

 Hampton, of South Carolina, came to be the purchaser and importer of Sovereign. 

 The last of the male line of Emilius was Villard, a little black horse by Lodi (son of 

 Yorkshire) out of Rosa Mansfield by Rivoli. He died at Pendleton, Oregon, in 

 the winter of 1001. 



The line of Catton, a great winner himself and twice a premier sire of England, 

 was also destined to meet its total extinction in the Far West. Its final representative 

 was Warwick, by Hubbard out of Mayflower (Joe Hooker's dam) by imported 

 Eclipse. This horse is not to be confounded with a son of imported Leamington and 

 Minnie Minor, that died the property of Mr. James B. Haggin. This horse was an 

 excellent performer and was beaten a length by Nathan Coombs (son of Lodi and 

 Miami) in a race of two and one-half miles at Sacramento, conceding a year and 

 12 Ibs., to the winner. He also beat Red Boy, by War Dance, at mile heats, at Star 



