The American Thoroughbred 



Whistle Jacket, of course. All right. Put Longfellow in with them also, and there you 

 are at the end of your rope. On the other hand, take the great sire-producing mares of 

 England. Take Amazon, by Driver, for instance. She was foaled just 105 years ago 

 and was by Driver, son of Trentham, who got Tabitha, the grand dam of Sir Archy; 

 and I have always been disposed to credit Sir Archy's excellence to Castianira and 

 Tabitha, rather than to Diomed, who, with all the prestige attaching to the first Derby 

 winner, surely ought to have gotten something of merit besides Young Giantess. 



Well, from Amazon are descended, in female tail-line, Isinglass, the greatest money 

 winner the world has ever seen ; Stockwell, the greatest sire ever foaled ; Rataplan, 

 his brother, a better racehorse than Stockwell and quite his equal as a broodmare sire; 

 King Tom, whose fillies were better than either Stockwell's or Rataplan's ; Talk o' the 

 Hill, detailed at greater length in the Australian chapter of this book ; Quicklime, not 

 the best of sires, but fairly good ; Rayon d'Or, as great a sire as he was a performer, 

 which says a great deal; Conveth, a good horse buried alive in Southern California; 

 Nuneham, whose fee was $250 in 1882; Blandford, sire of that good horse, Mate; 

 and a dozen others of less note. The No. 3 family of Bruce Lowe's system is the 

 greatest of all sire families and the Amazon branch is the best branch of it, although 

 Flving Dutchman, Lanercost, Galopin, Pyrrhus the First and other great sires trace 

 also to the Byerly Turk mare, which produced the two True Blues, but not through 

 Amazon. 



Then there is Boadicea by Alexander and she had a sister called Berenice. Boadicea 

 is the main stay of the No. 14 family and I cannot recall another single stallion of 

 note that traces back to Berenice, who is the ancestress, at the fifth generation of that 

 capital sire, Buccaneer, who got Brigantine, Kisber and Formosa. On the other hand, 

 her sister, Boadicea, is the one great mare in the No. 14 family and to her trace directly 

 all its best exponents, as follows : 



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f Touchstone, 1831. 

 Launcelot, 1837. 

 Jocose Macaroni, 1860. 



Pantaloon Mare Lady Palmerston 

 Lady Patroness First Lady Grand 

 Flaneur. 



Pasquinade 



Sarcasm Satirist, 1838. 



( The Libel. 

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Caricature Defamation Stolen 

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Kisses 



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Evening Star. . 



Waterwitch-Mermaid 



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Starlight Zone... 



Daughter of the Star. 



Lurline. 



Midnight Torchlight Lamplighter. 

 Cape Race. 

 Arizona Aranza. 



Hippia Tarantula Taranto. 

 Hippolyta Fairy Rose. 



Darebin . 

 Plenty 



Fairy . 



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( Honoria Queen of Beauty Panic. 



