. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ny stallion now in this country, butamong those which have been well tried here in the stud, and arehere no longer, may be mentioned the Flying Dutchman. Thishorse was well known to have been himself not only fast, but stout,and, as a consequence, even those breeders who are aware of thenecessity for regarding both of these qualities were induced tobreed from him, expecting that the result would be to give themsimilar stock in the next generation. The contrary, however, wasthe case. In many cases speed was develope
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. ny stallion now in this country, butamong those which have been well tried here in the stud, and arehere no longer, may be mentioned the Flying Dutchman. Thishorse was well known to have been himself not only fast, but stout,and, as a consequence, even those breeders who are aware of thenecessity for regarding both of these qualities were induced tobreed from him, expecting that the result would be to give themsimilar stock in the next generation. The contrary, however, wasthe case. In many cases speed was developed, but in almost everyinstance, without an exception, that speed was not allied with stay-ing power. The unlooked-for result has been attributed to hissire. Bay Middleton. whose stock have been notoriously flashy; butif the pedigree of Barbelle, his dam, is carefully examined, a stillstronger reason may be assigned. If her lines are traced back fivegenerations, it will be seen that out of her thirty-two progenitorsin that remove fourteen are descended from Herod or his sire,. CHOICE OF SIRE AND DAM. 115 Tartar, and these in addition to the already overflowing quantumof the same blood in Bay Middleton himself. Now I am a greatadmirer of the blood of Herod, and I believe him to be one of thechief foundations of the high form of our modern horses; but itspeculiar characteristic is speed, not stoutness, and it requires acombination with the stouter blood of Eclipse, or some other horseof that strain, to make the possessor capable of staying a these fast lines the produce of Barbelle has always been fast,but it can scarcely occasion surprise that her stoutest son, VanTromp, should be by Lanercost, nor that Orlando, with his doublelines of Selira and Castrel blood, should get a mere half-miler likeZuyder Zee. The Flying Dutchman was, no doubt, a grand per-former himself, but his may be regarded as a somewhat exceptionalcase, and this opinion is supported by the failure
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