274 MODERN FARRIER. 



Yorkshire. The Doctor was got by Paynator, dam 

 by Beningbrough, and grandam by Carbuncle. He 

 has won no less than twenty cups, besides large 

 sums in cash. 



The following is a statement of the number of 

 winners and the prizes won by the stock of many 

 of the present fashionable blood-horses : — 



By Waxy (son of Pot-80's\ aged 30, lG7 winners, 

 won 64,454/. 15.?. and nine cups. 



Sorcerer (son of Trurapator), aged 24, 162 win- 

 ners, won 74,769/. 14*. 10^. and five cups. 



Haphazard (son of Sir Peter Teazle), aged 23, 56 

 winners, won 15,964/. 14,?. and fifteen cups. 



Popinjay (son of Buzzard), aged 23, 20 winners, 

 won 9163/. 11*. 



Walton (son of Sir Peter Teazle), aged 21, 91 

 winners, won 45,526/. 16*. and thirteen cups. , 



Orvilie (son of Beningbrough), aged 21, 109 win- 

 ners, won 40,773/. 14*. and fourteen cups. 



Selim (son of Buzzard), aged 18, 83 winners, won 

 28,606/. Is. 6d. and three cups. 



Grosvenor (son of Trumpator), aged 18, 13 win- 

 ners, won 7956/. 15*. and three cups. 



Hedley (son of Gohanna), aged 17, 16 winners, 

 won 3941/. 2*. 6(1 and two cups. 



A singular instance of the courage of a race-horse 

 occurred during the race for the member's plate, at 

 Salisbury, August 17, 1814. Mr. Radcliffes Spe- 

 culator, shortly after starting, broke down ; not- 

 withstanding Vvdiich, although he had nearly Uvo 

 miles to run, and gave the filly Amanda forty 

 pounds, after a severe struggle he ran a dead heat 

 with her. 



In December, 1815, lord Carmarthen, son of the 

 duke of Leeds, whilst hunting with his father's 

 h<)unds in the neighbourhood of Hornby Castle, 

 Yorkshire, leapt a brook v»^hich was bank full ; and 

 on being measured the next day from hind-foot to 

 fore-foot, it was twentv-six feet nine inches. His 



