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 | | Melbourne was the first foal of his dam, a bay mare by Cervantes, whose immediate female family line had been pretty much undistinguished for four or five generations. |
 | | A number of Melbourne's early daughters, from the 1840s, bred mostly obscure horses for several generations, but the lines were valued enough to continue; many of their female line descendants ended up in other countries, particularly in central Europe, where their progeny became top stakes winners. |
 | | LADY ALICIA, an 1852 daughter of Melbourne, was a pretty good race filly, and at age 2 won the Champagne Stakes at Stockbridge and ran third in a sweepstakes at Winchester; she later produced the outstanding jumper sire, Ascetic, and was third dam of Amphion. |
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