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day. It has, however, little to spare over two other lines of 

 the same family, those which are generally known as the 

 Touchstone -Newminster line through Camel and the line 

 of Blacklock. For the sake of brevity it may be explained 

 that the Hampton and Hermit families are the chief present- 

 day representatives of the Touchstone branch, and that the 

 Galopin-St. Simon breed represents Blacklock. The descent 

 can be best shown by a table. Beginning again, then, 

 with Eclipse, the pedigree is the same down to Whalebone. 



Thus : 



Eclipse 



Pot-8-os 



Waxy 



Whalebone 



Camel 



Touchstone 



Newminster 



Hermit. 



I have taken Hermit first because the 1867 Derby winner 

 was the first real maker of the Newminster family, and 

 though at present the family of Hampton are doing more 

 to keep the line alive, the Hermits may be up again in a 

 year or two. Hermit had an extraordinary stud career, his 

 sons and daughters winning during his lifetime between 

 300,000 and 400,000 in stake money alone. He sired two 

 winners of the Derby (Shotover and St. Blaise), one winner 

 of the Two Thousand (Shotover), two winners of the One 

 Thousand (Thebais and St. Marguerite), two winners of the 

 Oaks (Thebais and Lonely), but no winner of the St. Leger. 

 On the whole I am inclined to think that his fillies were 

 better than his colts, but he was responsible for a host of 

 good horses who did not win classic honours, and Tristan 

 and Timothy, for instance, both of whom were successful 

 in the Ascot Cup, while Tristan won the Hardwicke Stakes 

 three years in succession. Tristan has also sired an Oaks 

 winner in Canterbury Pilgrim, and another of Hermit's sons, 

 Trappist, was responsible for L'Abbesse de Jouarre, who won 

 the same race as far back as 1889. Many of Hermit's sons 

 are well known at the stud, and such as Friar's Balsam, 



