2 1 8 Silk and Scarlet. 



gave two thousand, was suspected to be a bit of a 



coward and was a little too peacocky to please some 

 eyes. He had a remarkably fine barrel, and a ring- 

 bone on the off fore-foot ; and some of his carriage- 

 horses were as good and lofty as they could be for 

 their purpose. Martha Lynn and Eulogy were the 

 only blood mares he had in his last season (1847), and 

 Vortex and Euphony were the foals. As Charles Xllth's 

 stock have quite disappeared after the failures of that 

 splendid first batch at Doncaster in 1846, whose looks 

 seemed to give quite a stimulus to breeding, and make 

 owners dissatisfied with the puny average of their 

 yearlings, his fame all hinges so far on the Martha 

 Lynn cross. Barnton is, like Melbourne, a coarse- 

 headed, lengthy, rough style of horse, good for any 

 kind of small light mares ; in fact, just the horse to 

 stop gaps when a* breeder cannot quite see his way. 

 He is deep in the rib, and rather narrow like the mare, 

 whereas Voltigeur has more of the Blacklock round- 

 ness of rib. 



Voltigeur was originally sent up as a yearling to 

 Doncaster ; but as the tAvo hundred bond fide bid 

 came a hundred short of the reserve, he was sent back 

 to Hart until after the Catterick meeting of the next 

 year, and then came to Aske, where Boone broke him. 

 He got an over-reach the day before he left Hart, 

 and he very nearly gave himself another while running 

 for the Derby. Nearly all his stock are whole-coloured 

 browns, with very springy pasterns, and that thickness 

 of neck which renders them — as in Vedette's and 

 Skirmisher's two and three-year-old days — rather 

 uneven to the eye. Vedette's action was very beau- 

 tiful, and became nearer the ground in his third 

 season ; but up to the very last day George Abdale 

 had him, he could never exactly make out where he 

 was lame. 



The Race of Semiseria was the quickest of Voltaire's 

 Owners for Nat. stock that was ever trained ; and she 



