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ring. As a sire of racing stock he was not 

 a conspicuous success, though many mares 

 of the highest class were sent to him ; but 

 this does not in the least discount my opinion 

 that he would have been the Tjeau ideal 

 of a Premium horse. 



Superlative speed in the progeny of the 

 latter is neither expected nor desired ; but 

 'rather a combination of the recognised good 

 points of the sire with some of his pace and 

 stoutness. Many of our fastest and most 

 successful Turf performers of the present 

 day would be among the last I should choose 

 as Premium sires, albeit I should be equally 

 reluctant to confer a premium for fine 

 appearance only. 



At the 1898 show and comjoetition for 

 Premiums at Islington — the eleventh which 

 the Eoyal Commission has held for awarding 

 them (the first having been at Nottingham 

 in 1888), it being also the first year in which 

 the rule excluding horses over twenty years 



