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GREATEST BROODMARE OF ALL TIME, Pocahontas ran only oiice as a two-year-old, unplaced to Lord George Bentincks Crucifix and Gen ernl Yatess Gibralter. which ran a dead heat and divided the Criterion Stakes. In the next year Pocahontas ran twice, finishing unplaced in the Oaks to Crucifix, and unplaced to the Duke of Orleanss Beggarman for the Goodwood Cup. As a four-year-oid sho was again unplaced for the chief event at Goodwood won by Charles XII.. After this race her owner, Mr. Greatorex. parted with her to Mr. Theobald owner of Stockwell, and she carried his colors in the Cesarewltch. won by Lord Pal-merston-K Uiona. In her fourth turf season Pocahontas competed in three heat races and was second-best in all three, but she then went to the stud, not having won a race of any sort. Yet a a broodmare she was priceless, and she was not onlv prolific producing in all fifteen foals but wonderfully long-lived, being in her thirty-fourth year when she died in 1S70. after being barren from 1S02, when she produced her last foal, Arauca-ria, to Ambrose. In all Pocahontas produced young to nine different sires, -and her progeny included Stockwell and Rataplan, by The Baron: King Tom. bv Ilarkaway: Avacanora. by Irish Birdcatcher; Knight of Knrs. by Nutwith; Knight of St. Patrick, by knight of St. George; .Automaton, Auricula, and Araucaria, by Ambrose; Cambaule her first-born, by Camel; Dolly Varden and Indiana, by Muley Moloch: and Strood, by Chatham. Her famous stud rival. Queen Mary dam of Blink Bonny. Haricot, Broomielaw. Bliukhoolie, Bonny Bell, etc, was twenty-nine when she died, and twenty-seven when she produced her last foal. Tliere are a few mares in the earliest volumes of the Stud Book that liker wise attained a ftreat age, but that Pocahontas was 33 when she died is beyond dispute. In the matter of longevity Pocahontas ranks therefore with Mal-chem among the stallions, that famous sire having likewise entered his thirty-fourth year when he departed to the happy hunting grounds.
