'"
"Blink Bonny! H'm! Who was he? What did he do?" Hilary asked.
Allys looked at him severely. "'He' happens to have been 'she,'" she said.
"As for the doing, it was only winning the Derby, with the Oaks right on top of it. Mighty few mares have ever done that-as you would know if you had grown up in Virginia, with time to know everything. Billy does know everything about pedigrees-he can reel them off at least a hundred years back.
Remember, now, I'm strictly quoting him: 'Blink Bonny is really ancient history-she won the year poor old Dick Ten Broek tried so hard to have his American-bred ones carry off the blue ribbon of the turf. He didn't win it-no American did-until one of them had luck enough to try for it with something of Blink Bonny's blood. Iroquois went back to her through his sire, Bonnie Scotland-Iroquois, who wasn't really a great horse, but a good one that happened on a great chance.
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