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ter, and son to dam, with one cross out, in regular 

 rotation, was the real touchstone of breeding science. 

 Walton's most distinguished son, Partisan, who ran 

 fourth and last in his maiden race to Bourbon, 

 strained back to Highflyer through his dam Parasol 

 by Pot-8-o's out of Prunella. On the Turf he was a 

 very fair performer, especially in matches, for which 

 the Grafton stable took his measure pretty accurately 

 by trying with Whisker. Trainers used to say of 

 him that he was the finest actioned horse that ever 

 went over Newmarket, and after proving the sire of 

 Venison, Mameluke, Gladiator, and Glaucus, he was 

 eventually sold for 165 guineas. 



Glaucus, the incidents of whose Ascot 

 Cup day form one of the liveliest pictures 

 in Mr. Willis's " Pencillings by the Way," followed 

 his American admirer early across the Atlantic ; but 

 Mr. Harvey Combe clung most fondly to his blood in 

 The Nob, who remained for many years under Will 

 Todd's guardianship at Cobham Park. He was, in 

 fact, so determined to keep it in his hands, that he 

 put the old horse at a price which few owners of a 

 thoroughbred mare chose to pay, and when he was 

 offered sixteen hundred for Trouncer to go to Ireland, 

 before he ran for the Ascot Cup, and half as much 

 after he broke down so badly, he would not listen to 

 either offer. To use his own words — " Pd sooner see 

 his hoof on my sideboard than his hoof-prints in any 

 one else's paddock ;" and accordingly ordered him to 

 be led at once to the kennels, and handed over to the 

 Royal boiler. He was the first foal of Premature, 

 who was herself foaled, as her name indicates, not 

 only long before her time, but five or six days before 

 the close of one December, and she was such a 

 miserable little object that it was some years before 

 he even cared to look at her. After losing three out 

 of her five fillies in 1846-51, he became most anxious 

 to have one out of her every year, by The Nob or 



