12 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
Thormanby, « Derby winner (1860) and one of the best of modern sires. 
Benningbrough, a bay, was sire of Orville, also a bay, sire of Octavius, 
Emilius, Margrave, and Muley, sire of Little Wonder and Muley Molech. 
Emilius, by Orville, begot Priam (imported to the United States), a chest- 
nut, and Plenipotentiary, a chestnut, both colts and Derby winners, though 
neither was very prominent in the stud. Hambletonian, son of King Fer- 
gus, begot Blacklock from an inbred Pot 80s mare. Blacklock begot Het- 
man Platoff, Derby winner of 1847, and Voltaire, sire of Charles XIL., and 
Voltigeur, Derby and St. Leger winners of 1850. 
Mercury, a chestnut horse, son of Eclipse, dam by Tartar, begot Go- 
hanna, a bay horse, sire of Catton, sire of Derby winner of 1835, and our 
own imported Trustee, sire of Fashion and the twenty-mile trotter Trustee. 
The last of the Ecliptic quartette, Jo Andrews, a bay horse by 
Eclipse, perpetuates his linein the male descent through his son Dick An- 
drews, a bay horse, sire of Tramp, also a bay, sire of Lottery, a bay horse, 
sire of Sheet Anchor, sire of Wetherbit, a hay horse, sire of Beadsman, Derby 
, winner of 1858. Beadsman was sire of Blue Gown, Derby winner: of 
1868, who died at sea on his way to the United States in 1880, and Pero 
Gomez, St. Leger winner and second for Derby of 1869. 
THE GODOLPHIN LINE. 
The so-called Godolphin-Arabian, a brown horse whose history is a 
myth and breeding unknown, but whose qualities are none the less remark- 
able, was the second of the three prime founders. Tne descent of this horse 
in the male line is through Cade, a bay horse, by Godolphin, out of Rox- 
anna, by the Bald Galloway; Matchem, a bay horse by Cade from a Partner 
mare; Conductor, a bay horse by Matchem from a Snap mare; Snap, by Snip, 
by Flying Childers; Trumpator, by Conductor, was from a mare of a variety 
of strains. From Trumpator descended Paynator and Sorcerer, a black 
horse, sire of Soothsayer, a chestnut horse (St. Leger 1811). Tiresias, a brown 
horse by Soothsayer, won the Derby of 1819, and Smolensko (Derby 1813) 
was sire of Gulnare (Oaks 1827) and Jerry, a black horse (St. Leger 
1824). Jerry was sire of Tomboy (sire of Nutwith, St. Leger 1843) and 
Jericho; Nutwith was the sire of Knight of Kars. Comus, a chestnut horse 
by Sorcerer, begot Reveller, a bay horse (St. Leger 1819), and Humphrey 
Clinker, a bay horse, sire of Rockingham (St. Leger 1833), and Melbourne, 
the great sire of winners. Melbourne was sire of Sir Tatton Sykes (St. 
Leger 1846); his dam Cymbria was an Oaks winner. Rockingham was 
sire of the dam of the great Sir Archy, the founder, ina great degree, of the 
American race horse. Melbourne was also sire of West Australian, sire of 
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