2o8 Silk and Scarlet. 



which he ran with Mango at Ascot ; and Emilius's 

 line has not gone on in very regular order. Recovery 

 and his pretty race fell into disrepute. Euclid died ; 

 Plenipo made no stud name ; and good as Priam's 

 mares were, he can only be worthily traced in the 

 male line through Chesterfield to the Hero. Priam 

 was a mare-looking horse, and so delicate a feeder 

 that William Chifney used to say that he could tell to 

 a handful of oats what he would eat in a week. His 

 head and neck were light, and his hair feathered from 

 his ears to the collar-place (if it be not sacrilege to 

 speak of a collar in connexion with him) in a most 

 eccentric style. He drooped rather on his hind pas- 

 terns, and stood on a remarkably straight hind leg, 

 although nothing to compare, in this respect, with 

 Landscape, who might have had two sets of fore-legs 

 to look at. Lord Jersey had the offer of him as a 

 yearling, but declined it, from an idea that he would 

 put out ringbones.. 



American Pur- He was, along With Trustee, Margrave, 

 chases. ^nd St. Giles, one of those high-priced 

 purchases which the Americans made from our turfites 

 in 1833-36. Such was the rage for him, that he not 

 only had a hundred mares at fifty each, his first season, 

 but it was said that "one leg of him" alone was sold 

 for 5000/. However, the end came at last ; and 

 Messrs. Tattersall were told, the year before he died, 

 that he was now stone-blind, and that they might 

 have him for two hundred if they liked. 

 The Hero at The Hero has got nearly all his tho- 

 Danebury. rough-bred stock as small as Rogerthorpe, 

 who was only trained because the learned friend to 

 whom he was offered preferred a half-bred to a tho- 

 rough-bred hack for his daughter, and received the 

 Goodwood Cup he won in lieu. Theon, by far the 

 best living son of Emilius, was sold along with Wasp 

 and the rest at Raby, when the racing glories of the 

 pink and black stripes ended. He had more quality 



