. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. was muchsuperior to any other horse of his time. Cade, that started only three or four times, andwas unsuccessful as a race horse, proved the most suc-cessful of all the sons of Godolphin Arabian as a per-petuator of race-winning speed. James Rice, authorof History of the British Turf, says that the greatestnames in the early stud books are undoubtedly Herod,Matchem and Eclipse. Herod, as has already beenshown, was a direct descendant in the male line ofByerley Turk, and through his dam he was inbred toDarley Arabian. M
. The American trotter; a treatise on his origin, history and development. was muchsuperior to any other horse of his time. Cade, that started only three or four times, andwas unsuccessful as a race horse, proved the most suc-cessful of all the sons of Godolphin Arabian as a per-petuator of race-winning speed. James Rice, authorof History of the British Turf, says that the greatestnames in the early stud books are undoubtedly Herod,Matchem and Eclipse. Herod, as has already beenshown, was a direct descendant in the male line ofByerley Turk, and through his dam he was inbred toDarley Arabian. Matchem was by Cade, mentionedabove, and his dam was by Crofts Partner, a grandsonof Byerley Turk, that has already been was by Marske, a grandson of Blaze, by DarleyArabian, and his dam, Spiletta, was by Regulus, a sonof Godolphin Arabian. The dam of Regulus was GreyRobinson, a daughter of Bald Galloway. Bald Galloway. This Bald Galloway was verysuccessful as a sire of race winners. He got some ofthe most remarkable race horses of their day. One of 24. THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE. them was called Buckhunter, and also known as Car-lisle Gelding, was on the turf thirteen seasons, begin-ning in 1719, and ending in 1731. He was theneighteen years old. He won seventeen plates afterhe was fourteen years old, and broke a leg in 1731in the second heat of a race, the first ofwhich he had won. He was so ungovernable that hewas castrated when young. The name of Bald Gallo-way appears in the pedigree of quite a number offamous race winners and successful sires. He got Rox-ana, the dam of Lath and Cade, already mentioned. Bald Galloway received considerable attention fromthe late J. H. Wallace in his last work devoted to thehorse, entitled The Horse of America. Mr. Wallacefinally disposes of him as follows: The Bald Galloway was one of the most successful stallionsof his day, and yet he was nothing in the world but a goodrepresentative of the old pacing Galloways of that portio
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