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| | Whalebone |
 | | Whalebone's sire, the bay 1793 Derby winner Waxy, grandson of Eclipse and from a Herod mare, was a sucessful sire of sires and broodmares. |
 | | Whalebone's son DEFENCE (1824), from Defiance (by Rubens) was "rather thick and cobby-looking," with a plain head, a short back and broad chest with "splendid" shoulders, standing "a trifle" under 15.2 hands. |
 | | Whalebone's son WAVERLEY (1817, out of Margaretta, by Sir Peter Teazle) was the fourth son through whom Whalebone's sire line continued, although it was in America and not the England, that it flourished. |
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