. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1891 ghe itafe and gpovtsmzu. 301 American mares to mate with "the old Circassian war-horde," as he is sometimes called. With the strong iufusion of Lex- iogton and Glencoe blood that prevails in America, this grey eon of Snowden and Phizgig is likely to get some great per* formers He is very strong in the lines of the two grea'est sires of fifty years agoâLaDgar and Blacklockâin addition to which he has the blood of Whalebone through Stamps, De- fence, Camel and Moses. Here are his blood lines ia extenso: 8DWARROW Phizgig Georglana Voltigeur (sister
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1891 ghe itafe and gpovtsmzu. 301 American mares to mate with "the old Circassian war-horde," as he is sometimes called. With the strong iufusion of Lex- iogton and Glencoe blood that prevails in America, this grey eon of Snowden and Phizgig is likely to get some great per* formers He is very strong in the lines of the two grea'est sires of fifty years agoâLaDgar and Blacklockâin addition to which he has the blood of Whalebone through Stamps, De- fence, Camel and Moses. Here are his blood lines ia extenso: 8DWARROW Phizgig Georglana Voltigeur (sister to Countess (Derby and of Burlington, St. Leger 1850) Snowden Dowbsdam (1841) Pyrrhua I Derby 1816) -2 « " ST t" a> 'oEo: g,: p. p"o g EC a g p o n, tor": ? 3 o . &â I 2* « ' ?^g =.§ s =?⢠5s ? »es s 1 = g Is sss: Tco ;pJ"B>''- u i â¢< 3 « I ; 2- £.â¢Â« a S râoS=c Str^' S'S'Bs: iSo'Zg'a' T32 ' g»3 5bs (c) Winners of the Oaks 1. d) Winners of the Goodwood Cup 3. (a) WlnnerB of the Derby 6. lb) Winners of the St. L6ger 7. Mr. Cy Mulkey, whose judgment on the form of horses cannot be called in question, was looking at Snwarrow a few days after he landed. "Well," Baid he, "if I were asked what is the handsomest horse I ever saw, I should say this gray fellow beyond all question. He is a trifle under size, to be sure, bnt if he were only a bay or a chestnut there would be no one lo find fault with his ; Snwarrow is, in forma- tioD, Btrictly speaking, a Voltigaur horse, and resembles his dam's Bire even more than did Billet (sire of Miss Woodford), who was also a horse of great quality. Snowden, the sire of 8uwarrow, got Swiveller from a Yattendon mare; and Swivel- ler was the sire of Mentor, who not onlv won the Melbourne Cup, of 1888 bnt four days later, with 126 lbs up he defeated the AuBtraiim Peer (127 lbs) and (132 lbs) at three miles, the last mile and a half run
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