43 



Fireaway (West's, 203), foaled 1800, who 

 begat 



Fireaway (Burgess', 208), foaled 1815, 

 who begat 



Wildfire (R. Ramsdale's, 864), foaled 1827, 

 who begat 



Phenomenon (P. Ramsdale's, 573), foaled 

 1835, who begat 



Performer (Taylor's, 550), foaled 1840, 

 who begat 



Sir Charles (Real's, 768), foaled 1843, who 

 begat 



Denmark (Bourdas's, 177), foaled 1862, 

 who begat 



Danegelt* (^V] \), foaled 1879, died 1894. 



If remoteness of ancestry be held proof of 

 purity of blood in equine as in human fami- 

 lies, the Hackney must take precedence of 

 the modern race-horse, for the Hackney has 

 in his veins the blood of the old Eno-Hsh 

 race-horse, tracing his descent from animals 

 which ran on the English Turf at a period 

 when the great grandsires of the Darley and 

 Godolphin Arabians were yet unfoaled. 



The Original Shales, as already said, was 

 the grandson, through Blaze, of Flying 



* Danegelt was sold in 1890 for / 5,000, to join 

 the Elsenham Stud. 



