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half-bred Arabian); Marske’s dam, by Blacklegs, by a bay Turk, second 
dam by Bay Bolton, third dam by Foxcub, his dam by Leeds’ Arabian; 
Eclipse’s dam, Spitella, was by Regulus, by Godolphin, second dam of 
mixed blood through the Bald Galloway. Squirt was a chestnut, Marske 
a brown, and Eclipse a chestnut. 
Eclipse, the principal perpetuator of the Bartlett branch of the Darley 
line, was as phenomenal in form as he was as a racer. He was sixteen 
hands high, and much higher over the croup. The hind cannons were very 
long, and the fore cannons very short, and for this peculiarity he was con- 
demned as deformed and unfit for racing purposes and sold, but afterward 
his extraordinary success in vanquishing every competitor with ease, in 
fact distancing a field of the best racers of the day, led to the adoption of 
the Eclipse pattern for race horses. He also had very oblique shoulders, 
high whirl-bones, massive thighs and a deep chest. He was the sire of 
three Derby winners, Young Eclipse (1817), Saltram (1783), and Sargeant 
(1784), and one Oaks winner, Annette (1787). His blood in the male line 
is through his sons Pot 8 os, King Fergus, Jo Andrews and Mercury. 
Pot 8 os’? dam was by Sportsman, by Cade, by Godolphin, with back- 
cross of Darley. He had three Derby winners and one Oaks; he also had 
one St. Leger winner, Waxey, whose dam Maria was by Herod, the main 
artery of the Byerly-Turk line, with remote strain of Darley through Blaze, 
by Flying Childers. With this combination of blood Waxey is termed 
the “ace of trumps” of the stud-book. He was sire of Pope, Whalebone, 
Blucher and Whisker, all Derby winners. Whalebone, the best, had two 
Derby winners and one Oaks, all bays. The branches of his family were 
through his sons Camel, Defense and Sir Hercules. Camel was sire of 
Touchstone and Sir Lancelot, St. Leger winners. Touchstone united 
through his dam fresh strains of the blood of Eclipse, and was sire of Derby 
and St. Leger winners. His son Surplus won both for the first time in 
forty-eight years. Orlando, a bay with white nose and hind legs, by 
Touchstone, was the most distinguished as a producer, and his best son 
was Tiddington, a horse which measured but sixty-three inches in girth. 
Newminster, by Orlando, was more successful in the stud. Adventurer, by 
Newminster, begot Pretender, winner of the Derby in 1869. Hermit, the 
greatest of English sires, is a son of Newminster. Sir Hercules was the 
sire of Birdcatcher, sire of the Baron, sire of Stockwell, one of the most 
fashionable of English sires. 
King Fergus, the second of the four great sons of Eclipse, founded two 
branches of his line through his sons Hambletonian and Benningbrough. 
From the former came the Blacklocks, and from the latter Emilius, Priam, 
Plenipotentiary and Muley Moloch, the sire of Alice Hawthorne, dam of 
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