242 PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS OF VARIOUS STALLIONS. 



4 Kingwater,' ' Forester,' ' Regan,' ' Referree,' ' Seagull,' ' Spencer,' 

 6 Gipsy Prince,' and 'Gipsy Royal,' 'Ranter,' ' Rienzi,' 'Railroad,' 

 6 Effort,' ' The Brewer,' < Derry,' Rebel,' ' Ringleader,' ' Winder- 

 mere,' 'Bosphorus,' 'Bright Chanticleer,' 'Ajax,' ' Blackadder,' 

 'Baffler,' 'Buckshorn,' and ' General Havelock.' From 'Figaro,' 

 through other dams than ' Bessy Bedlam,' come ' Lablache,' and 

 ' Little Wonder,' < Mechanic ' (son of ' Mocking Bird '), ' Jeffrey,' 

 and ' Ingomar ' (son and grandson of ' Mceris '), and ' Belligerent ' 

 (through ' Weapon,' another son of ' Figaro '), besides some others 

 whose names do not occur to me. Going still further back to 

 ' King Cob,' we have ' David ' and his sons ' Lapidist,' ' Little 

 Wonder,' c Gabriel,' and c Colchicum,' and no doubt * Patent ' as 

 soon as he has had another spin for the Waterloo Cup. ' Little 

 Wonder ' has three lines of ' King Cob,' adding one through 

 ' Figaro ' to the two in c David,' obtained from ' Sam,' and ' Toll- 

 wife.' It will thus be seen that there is plenty of ' King Cob ' 

 blood in the market, and that there are few stallions at the service 

 of the public without one or more lines of his blood. As our 

 public greyhounds are thus rendered nearly all of the same 

 breed for the descendants of ' King Cob ' and those of ' Beacon ' 

 and ' Scotland Yet ' comprise a very large proportion of them, 

 there is not now the chance of any one strain distinguishing itself, 

 as happened when 'Bang Cob' and 'Foremost,' followed by 

 ' Figaro ' and ' Bedlamite,' made their appearance as public sires, 

 and carried nearly all before them in their respective days. 

 Besides these strains, there are some few descendants of Sir Jas. 

 Boswell's e Jason' through 'Vraye Foy ' and 'The Curler,' but 



