I THE ENGLISH THOROUGHBRED 25 
Buzzard, Chateau Margeaux, Glaucus Lannercost, 
Pyrrhus the First, Soothsayer, Sir Peter, Stockwell, 
Flying Dutchman, Velocipede, Master Henry, etc. 
Family 5 contains Ancaster Starling, Camillus 
Catton, Grey Momus, Don John, Lord Clifden, Pheno- 
menon, Rustic, Rubens, Selim, Sir Hercules, Volti- 
geur, etc. Family 11 contains Goldfinder, Spectator, 
Whisky, Waterloo, Whalebone, Glencoe, Melbourne, 
Partisan, Bay Middleton, Morel, Cobweb, Lord 
Lyon, ete. 
That all animals of especial excellence are more 
or less inbred, but that the closeness of this relation- 
ship to the common ancestor has its limits, and that 
the greatest possibility of breeding successfully lies 
in the fact of sire and dam being four, five, or six 
degrees removed from their common ancestors (cf 
Count Lehndorff). 
Beyond these facts it is reasonable to suppose 
that the climate, soil, herbage, and water of this 
country have aided man in his conscious and un- 
conscious efforts to improve and perfect the race- 
horse. That the prepotency, or power of transmitting 
its qualities, inherent in the English Thoroughbred 
is due to (1) the amount of Eastern blood, the most 
potent because the bluest and purest in the world, in 
his veins ; (2) the careful inbreeding and selection 
practised since the inauguration of the Stud Book. 
“In breeds of high race, quality, and antiquity, 
it is the influence of d/o0d which is the very founda- 
tion and principle of the preservation of the breed. 
It is the quality which struggles incessantly against 
any alteration in the type or any deterioration in the 
structure. 
