62 NOTES ON BREEDING RACEHORSES. 



sand Guineas and the Derby 1843 ; Mowerina, Lady of 

 Silverkeld Well, etc.). 



3. Snowdrop, goes back to Beningbro' (dam of Gemma di 



Vergy). 



4. Canezou, goes back to Sorcerer (dam of Fazzoletto, Bas- 



quine, La Bossue, dam of Boiard). 



5. Ghuznee, daughter of Languish, in-bred to the same Sir 



Peter, goes back to Sir Peter (dam of Meeanee, Storm, 

 Scalade, etc.). 



6. Alice Hawthorn, goes back to Beningbro' (dam of Thor- 



manby, winner of the Derby 1860; Oulston, Terrona, 

 Findon, Lady Hawthorn, Sweet Hawthorn). 



7. Phryne, goes back to Waxy. She produced to Pantaloon : 



Elthiron, Windhound, Hobble Noble, and The Reiver ; 

 to Melbourne, Rambling Katie and Blanche of Middle- 

 bie ; and to the Flying Dutchman : Katherine Logic. 



About the breeding combinations in respect to Phryne vol- 

 umes might be written. We have seen, that of the mares show- 

 ing in the descent of their parents but two removes from the 

 common ancestor, Finesse, her daughter Decoy and grand- 

 daughter Legerdemain, are in that strong degree in-ljred to 

 the three sires Highflyer, Sir Peter, and Peruvian, or grand- 

 father, fiither and son ; nevertheless. Legerdemain, the offspring 

 of threefold in-breeding, when mated with a stallion of a quite 

 different strain of blood, breeds a horse of the first class, like 

 Toxophilite ; and her dam Decoy, a produce of twofold in- 

 breeding, with Pantaloon (from herself only twice removed), 

 four such good animals as Sleight of Hand, The Drone, Van 

 Amburgh, and Legerdemain. Fortunately, for a comparison, 

 Decoy was also mated with Touchstone, with whom she stands 

 (four degrees removed from Waxy) in moderate relationship, 

 and, behold, produced Flatcatcher, winner of the Two Thou- 

 sand Guineas and sire of numerous excellent brood mares, and 

 Phryne, one of the most valuable pearls of the whole Stud Book. 

 Decoy must assuredly have been a mare of enormous individual 

 potency, to be able to produce six animals of the quality, of one 



