402 JOHN PORTER OF KINGSCLERE 



Jarnac II. The Welkin and Blankney II. are 

 now at the stud in Australia. 



It was on my strong recommendation that 

 M. Blanc bought Flying Fox. When, a few 

 years later, I visited his stud he said to me, 

 as we were looking at the son of Orme, " This 

 is one of the best investments I ever made. 

 Everything you have recommended me to buy 

 has turned out well." On the occasion of my 

 second marriage he gave me, as a wedding present, 

 a subscription to Flying Fox. When the mare 

 — Miss Unicorn, by Gallinule — returned to 

 England from her visit to the horse I sold her 

 to the present Duke of Westminster. 



Flying Fox died at M. Blanc's stud on March 

 21, 191 1. If he was not entitled to be called 

 a ** smasher ** as a racehorse, he was, as I have 

 shown, a phenomenally successful stallion. In 

 one respect he exhibited a characteristic which 

 distinguished the male line he so successfully 

 helped to maintain. Doncaster, Bend Or, 

 Ormonde, Orme, and Flying Fox, all in direct 

 succession, did best the first year or two they 

 were at the stud. The table I have given, show- 

 ing the value of the races won by the progeny 

 of Flying Fox in France, reveals the fact that 

 the achievements of his stock, after the third 

 year, dwindled to comparatively slender pro- 

 portions until Dagor came on the scene in 1913. 

 It only remains to be added that Ajax in France 



