The Australian Thoroughbred id 1 / 



Mainbrace was bought by them, together with the following Belgravian matrons for 

 export : 



S \VERTH A, by The Flying Dutchman, out of Patience by Lanercost, from Billet 

 Doux by Gladiator. In foal to Rataplan. 



MARCHIONESS, Oaks winner of 1855, by Melbourne, out of Cinizelli (afterwards 

 dam of The Marquis, who won the St. Leger of 1862) by Touchstone. In foal to Stock- 

 well. 



JULIET, by Touchstone, out of Lancashire Witch (Champagne Stakes 1844) by 

 Tomboy from Lady Moore Carew (dam of Mendicant) by Tramp. In foal to Stock- 

 well produced Chrysolite as result. 



OMEN, by Melbourne, whose dam I have forgotten. 



ROSE DE FLORENCE, br. m., by The Flying Dutchman, out of Boarding School Miss 

 by Plenipotentiary, from Marpessa (2nd dam of Stockwell) by Muley. 



There were two other mares that I have forgotten, but they all turned out well. 

 Fisherman, judging from the portrait in the office of the Australian Jockey Club at 

 Sydney, was a horse for which I would not have given $100 as a stallion, unless I 

 had been looking on the Scotch when it was a highball." He was about sixteen hands 

 high and very leggy, being quite short in the back and considerably "tucked" in the- 

 thighs. A more ragged-looking brute was never seen unless it w r as that marvelous 

 French horse, Gladiateur. Not only that, but he was the shortest-bodied horse for his 

 height the great Ormonde not excepted that anybody ever saw. For all that he 

 bred as much class as any horse ever taken to that country for he only made two full 

 seasons and died of apoplexy. He is buried on Maribyrnong hill, about half a mile 

 from the Flemington track which I deem the handsomest race-course in the world. 

 Lindsay Gordon, in his inimitable ballad of the Malbourne Cup, says : 



"Though feathery ferns and grasses wave 



On the sward where Lantern sleeps ; 

 Though the sod is green on Fisherman's grave, 

 The stable its prestige keeps." 



Fisherman got Angler, who won both Derbys and the Victoria St. Leger; and 

 his full brother, Fish Hook, who won the Champion Race at three miles., both being 

 out of imported Marchioness. He also feot Sylvia, a great" performer in her day and 

 subsequently dam of Martini Henry, by Musket; and of Goldsbrough (by Fireworks), 

 one of the greatest racehorses that ever lived. He won the Great Metropolitan two . 

 miles in 3 132^4 with 129 pounds, at 5 years old, whereas, it took Sir Modred 3 134^2 

 to cover the same ground with 122 pounds. If Sir Modred was first-class, what was 

 Goldsbrough? Fisherman got two entire horses from Rose de Florence Ferryman 

 and Maribyrnong, the former of whom was good without being great. But Mari- 

 byrnong. though it was claimed that he never got a really first-class horse, got four 

 Derby winners and six of the two St. Legers four at Sydney and two at Melbourne. 

 His daughters bred well to everything and especially to the sons of Yattendon and 

 Musket. Fisherman also got Sea Gull, who ran second to the Colonial Tim Whiffler 

 in the Melbourne Cup of 1866, and who would have won it had she not gone out so 

 early and set a hot pace ; and then, if Gordon's poetry is correct, she was beaten by 

 the shortest of necks. 



Chrysolite, by Stockwell, out of Juliet by Touchstone, above referred to, was bred 

 to Ajigler, son of Fisherman and Marchioness and produced Robinson Crusoe and 

 Onyx, the latter being afterwards famous as the dam of Nordenfelt (by Musket), who 

 won both Derbys while his stable companion, Matchlock, lugged off both St. Legers 

 in that year. Robinson Crusoe took his name from being saved from the wreck of the. 

 City of Melbourne, a steamer that foundered just abreast of the Coogee Aquarium. She 



