CHAPTER VII. 



Anecdotes of Racehorses. 



A VERY beautiful horse, and a far better racehorse than 

 the public were aware of was " Camballo," who passed his 

 stud life at Moorlands, but who was not the success as a 

 sire that he should have been from his appearance and his 

 merits. Perhaps he was too inbred — by " Cambuscan " by 

 " Newminster " (by " Touchstone"), out of " Little Lady " by 

 " Orlando " (by " Touchstone "), as the " Touchstone " line 

 does not seem to bear inbreeding to itself, especially its 

 two most delicate lines, of " Newminster " and " Orlando." 

 These horses were both out of mares that had very hard 

 work on the turf, and perhaps their constitutions suffered 

 accordingly. " Camballo " was a lovely, long, low, thick 

 bay horse, with most perfect quality, a thorough gentle- 

 man from head to heel, but he lacked one trait that 

 was conspicuous in " Speculum," and that was energy. 

 Undoubtedly a stallion must be full of nervous energy if 

 he is to impart vigour to his stock. The Spaniards used 

 to have a proverb that " a stallion, a gamecock, and a lover 

 must have fire," and there is much truth in it. I never 

 remember a very quiet horse, with the docility of a lady's 

 hack, producing high-couraged progeny, however good he 

 may have been himself. 



After showing excellent form as a tvv'o-year-old,^ " Cam- 

 ballo " was tried in the autumn with " Thunder/' then four 



