Identifier: horsebreedershan00osbo (find matches)
Title: Horse-breeder's handbook : together with a history of the rise and progress of the British stud...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Osborne, Joseph
Subjects: Horses Thoroughbred horse Horses
Publisher: London : Seale
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ring first-class stallions have plenty to choose from in the Yardley Stud.Nor should it be forgotten that at Y^ardley was bred the great Isonomy,whose sons and daughters have already given to the turf such good runnersas Cyllene, Dieudonne, Wildfowler, Sirenia, Bittern, Heir Male, Nun Nicer,Queen of the Rivers, Dabchick, WinkfieldJs Dower, Astracan, Little Blanche,Ruler by Isosceles, and the filly by the latter handsome sire, out of Spring-thorn by Morgan, all of whom greatly distinguished themselves in 1897,so much so that their performances recall to mind the great deeds doneby their grandsire. Sterling, both on the racecourse and at the stud, andwhose pedigree is given on the next page. The tap-roots of Sterling show that he comes from the same Royalmare from whom descended Eclipse, while, like Pocahontas, he has in himnine strains of the Old Morocco mare, three of the Tregomvell Natural Barbmare, while most of the remainder of the Arab or Barb blood in him was Ixviii INTRODUCTION.
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INTRODUCTION. Ixix taken from Royal mares. Then with regard to the winning blood of theday, Sterling had plenty of it in him fi-om Birdcatcher, ToucJistone, andMelbourne, with a sufficiency of Blachlock taken from Hornsea, who is also afactor in the pedigree of St. Simon. Gone Coon is another sjilendidly bred son of Galojnn, his dam being Horsde Combat by IlamjHon out of Repulse by Stockwell, her dam Sortie byMelbourne—Escalade by Touchstone, thus being full of the winning bloodof the day, which is what should be followed by every breeder. It is con-sequently almost past belief that in the Stud Book i-eturn for 1897 GoneCoon is credited with being the sire of only five foals—three colts and twofillies. Breeders can see for themselves at page 56 that in Gone Coon thereis at least a splendid combination of the blood of Blachlock and Touchstone, ifnot the best to be found in the Stud Book, as it brings to his pedigree twostrains of Birdcatcher, through the famous brothers Stockwell a

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