. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 8 ®He gveebev emit ppovistntzn [March 8, 1S02. I have been very much entertained by reading- Mr. George Voorhees' brief but significant letters to the id the decadence of the great blood lines of eighty years ago, particularly how the male line of Orville, which was at the head of the Brit- ish turf, or nearly so, between 1812 and 1823, has gradu- ally "gone a glimmering through the gloom''until it has become altogether extinct. It is doubtful if the world ever saw a greater sire than Orville, for his name is to be found from ten to fifteen times in every
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 8 ®He gveebev emit ppovistntzn [March 8, 1S02. I have been very much entertained by reading- Mr. George Voorhees' brief but significant letters to the id the decadence of the great blood lines of eighty years ago, particularly how the male line of Orville, which was at the head of the Brit- ish turf, or nearly so, between 1812 and 1823, has gradu- ally "gone a glimmering through the gloom''until it has become altogether extinct. It is doubtful if the world ever saw a greater sire than Orville, for his name is to be found from ten to fifteen times in every modern pedigree. But his only male-line representa- tive is now' a little black horse called Villard, by Lodi, owned near PendletoD. in Eastern Oregon. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, there were several notable Orville horses in America, the best being imp. Sovereign by Emilius out of that mighty mare, Fleur de Lis, who won 22 races out of 31, including a Don- caster and two Goodwood Cups. It was on the charge of having this mare pulled in the Goodwood Cup of 1832, so that Priam could beat her, that William IV., King of England, was ruled off for life. The decline of the male line of Gohanna, the only horse that ever beat the great Waxy, is almost as noteworthy. Gohanna was a small and wiry-built horse of a type somewhat similar to Macaroni and our imp. Trustee. He got Election and Cardinal Beaufort, winners of the Derby. He also got three brothers, Wanderer, Golimpus and Hedley, the latter being sire of Prince Leopold, who won the Derby of 1800, while Golimpus got Otteringtun, winner of the St. Leger of 1812. Wanderer got no such performers as these, but begot Peri, dam of Sir Hercules, whose male line has been at the head of the British turf for 15 seasons out of the last 50, in addition to being 13 times second and 15 times third in the same period. Hence, Gohanna was a strong factor, judge him as you will. Golimpus was also the sire of Catton, a great race horse
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