12 GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF 



pair of well-bred chestnut leaders working 

 a fast coach out of London, one of which 

 was twenty-one, and the other twenty-four 

 years of age ! 



In breeding, therefore, we need not 

 consider a matron of the stud at all 

 elderly at, say, from twelve to seventeen, 

 since many mares have produced good foals 

 when well past the latter age ; as, for 

 instance, JPriam, Crucifix, and Brutandorf, 

 whose dams were all past twenty when 

 they were foaled. Waxy, again, begat his 

 almost equally famous son Whisker in 

 his twenty-second year; Ilelhourne, Blink 

 Bonny, dual winner of Derby and Oaks, at 

 nineteen ; while the sire of the flying 

 Voltigeur was twenty-one. We cite race- 

 horses, be it understood, because it is only 

 of them that reliable records have for any 

 length of time been kept; but the principle 

 is naturally the same with all breeds — except 

 that we should bear in mind that the horse's 



