xiv CONTENTS 



Epsom trainers The Midlands Exton Park Hednesford Stanton 

 Royston Thetford Mr. Musker's successes with two-year-olds Northern 

 and Southern rivalry Elsey of Baumber Yorkshire training grounds 

 Malton William I'Anson His successes Self- Sacrifice Her St. Leger 

 trial Chittabob I'Anson's purchases of platers ' . Pages 217-266 



CHAPTER IX 

 BREEDING 



Uncertainty of breeding thoroughbreds Unaccountable barrenness in mares 

 Proportion of foals to mares Half-bred foals more hardy Practice of 

 early stinting The result of two-year-old racing Noted two-year-old 

 winners Four-figure yearlings A big lottery The prices La Fleche, 

 Doncaster, and St. Simon Table of the failures Wealthy owners the 

 cause of high prices How they go to work at sales No yearling worth 

 more than 1,000 guineas Fashionable blood The figure system 

 Bargains in ready-made racehorses Good ones bought out of Selling 

 Plates Dispersal of big studs and private sales . . Pages 267-280 



CHAPTER X 

 LINES OF BLOOD 



Evolution of the English thoroughbred Its origin from the East Arabs, 

 Barbs, Turks, and Persians Wonderful increase in size Stamina greater 

 in Eastern breeds Speed a modern development Stayers more numerous 

 than suspected Four-mile heats v. sprints The limit of pedigrees The 

 descent of Eclipse goes back to Eastern sires Their mating with native 

 mares Royal mares Table showing pedigree of Eclipse In-breeding 

 Lord d'Arcy's importations Noted descendants of Eclipse The Bird- 

 catcher line Isonomy Isinglass Janissary The Stockwell line Blair 

 Athol Ormonde, Orme, and Goldfinch Kendal and Ormonde Which 

 was the better ? Their private trial Galtee More well sold for ^"20,000 

 Handsomest thoroughbred of modern times Melton Line of Camel 

 The Newminster family Hermit His extraordinary stud career 

 Characteristics of his stock Hermit mares as breeders The Hampton 

 family Bought out of a Selling Race His great race for the Northumber- 

 land Plate Some of his descendants The Touchstone line Line of 

 Tramp His ancestors and descendants A line to be encouraged Line 

 of Blacklock The best staying family of to-day King Fergus Hamble- 

 tonian Whitelock The St. Simon-Galopin family out of a 3 mare 

 Descriptions of Blacklock Voltigeur Galopin St. Simon The St. 

 Simons as galloping machines St. Simon's career Ormonde or St. 



Simon the better horse? Persimmon Coupled with Harkaway as the 

 horse of the century Line of Herod Four celebrated lines of descendants 

 Line of Godolphin Matchem to Barcaldine West Australian The pick 

 of England Winning stock of Barcaldine . . Pages 281-333 



INDEX ..... Page 335 



