4() THE HORSE. 



eighh yards) in seven minutes and thirty seconds. In 1772 a mile was 

 run t)y Firetail, in one minute and four seconds. 



In October, 1741, at tiie Curragli meeting in Ireland, Mr. Wilde engaged 

 to ride one hundred and twenty-seven miles in nine hours. He performed 

 it in six hours and twenty-one minutes. He employed ten horses, and, 

 allowing for mounting and dismounting, and a moment for refreshment, he 

 rode for six hours at the rate of twenty miles an hour. 



Mr. Thornhili, in 1745, exceeded this, for he rode from Stilton to Lon- 

 don and back, and again to Stilton, being two hundred and thirteen miles, 

 in eleven liours and thirty-four minutes, which is, after allowing the least 

 possible time for changing horses, twenty miles an hour for eleven hours, 

 and on the turnpike road and uneven ground. 



Mr. Shaftoe, in 1762, with ten horses, and five of them ridden twice, 

 accomplished fifty miles and a quarter, in one hour and forty-nine minutes. 

 In 1763, Mr. Shaftoe won a more extraordinary match. He was to 

 procure a person to ride one hundred miles a day, on any one horse each 

 day, for twenty-nine days together, and to have any number of horses not 

 exceeding twenty-nine. He accomplished it on fourteen horses ; and on 

 one day he rode one hundred and sixty miles, on account of the tiring of 

 his first horse. 



Mr. Hull's Quibbler, however, afforded the most extraordinary instance 

 on record of the stoutness as well as speed of the race-horse. In Decem- 

 ber, 1786, he ran twenty-three miles round the flat at Newmarket, in fifty- 

 seven minutes and ten seconds. 



ECLIPSK 

 Eclipse was got by Marsk, a grandson of Bartlett's Childers.* 



* The pedigree of Eclipse affords a singular illustration of the descent of our thorough- 

 bred horses from pure Eastern blood. 



C Darley Arabian, 

 f Bartlett's ChUders . . | j^^^y Leeds | Careless | Shankfr ^ Barb Mare 



Squirt < f Snake . . . . ( Lister Turk, 



Dam of JDaughterU, .j^ pArceyWhiteTurk 



I Caroline and Shock . \ ( Hautboy. [ «a"i°oy { Royal Mare. 



l°Ha^ury°M"=^"^''°^- 



(Daughter of 



( Hutton's Bay Turk. , 



Button's Black Legs ^ ( Coneyskins. ] Lister Turk. 



( Daughter of < ^ 



( Daughter of J Hautboy 



- ( Clumsy. I Hautboy. 



Fox Cub...? ' , 



r, , . r ( Daughter of \ Le 



Daughter of -^ <■ = > 



I ( Coneyskins . I ': 



Daughter of < [ 



( Daughter of ] Hutton's Grey Barb. 



' Daugliter of \ Leeds Arabian. 

 Lister Turk. 



{ Godolphin Arabian. 

 Regulut. . i i Bald Galloway. ( 



' Daughter of ? ( Snake. } Lister Turk. 



( Daughter of ^ ' 



' Old Wilkes, by Hautboy. 

 C Smith's Son of Snake. 

 Mother Western < , 



( Old Montague | Daughter of Hautboy 



The pedisrree of Eclip.'ic will likewi.«(e afford us another curious illustration of the un- 

 certainty which attends thorough-lired horses. Marsk was sold at tiie sale of the Duke 

 ff Cumberland's stud for a mere trifle, and was suffered to run almost wild on the New 



