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THE HORSE 



It is a noteworthy fact that the great lines of blood are 

 very generally carried on by the winners of the Derby and 

 St. Leger, who take, as a rule, the highest places amongst the 

 successful stallions of their generation, though occasionally 

 their immediate runners-up also make Turf history ; but 

 handicap winners, however meritorious their performances 

 may have been, seldom figure conspicuously in the pedigrees 

 of famous horses, and in a few years their names are totally 

 forgotten. There could be no more convincing proof of the 

 value of these great three-year-old races in providing such a 

 test for the selection of the best animals of their year. 



A general summary of the above list gives the amount of 

 wins gained by each family as follows, though it must not be 

 overlooked that in some instances the same animal has 

 gained two, and occasionally three, of the races, so that 

 though the family is credited with the full number of wins, 

 it does not follow it possesses an equal tale of individual 

 winners. In the case of the dead-heat for the Derby, 

 between Harvester and St. Gatien, each of their respective 

 families is credited with a win, and therefore there appear 

 to be sixty-one winners of the Derby during the period of 

 sixty years ; and the same with the dead-heat for the Oaks 

 between Governess and Gildermire, which, therefore, also 

 shows 61 winners. 



