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sand pounds by Eclipse. In twenty-three years, three hundred and forty- 

 four winners, the progeny of this transcendant courser, produced to their 

 owners, the sum of 158,047/. 12s. various prizes not included. The 

 general character of the descendants of Eclipse is speed, although some, 

 both immediate and remote, have been remarkable for their stoutness 

 or game ; for example. Lord Surrey's Whizgig, and the present cele- 

 brated slallion Gohanna, by Mercury, the best four-mile Horse of his 

 day. Many of the Eclipses, I remember, bent their knees, and were 

 remarkable high-goers. 



At Newmarket First Spring Meeting, 1773, Firetail, a bay Horse, 

 by Squirrel, beat Pumpkin, by Matchem, a single mile, eight stone 

 each, and the race was run in one minute, four seconds, and a half; the 

 speediest performance, it may be supposed, since that of Flying Chil- 

 ders. Squirrel, the sire of this Firetail, and so famous for speedy stock, 

 appeared to me a long-waisted, and remarkably short-legged Horse. 



Marske, sire of Eclipse, was bred by John Hutton, Esq. of Marske, near 

 Richmond, in Yorkshire, by whom, when a colt, in the year 1750, he 

 was exchanged with the old Duke of Cumberland, for a chesnut Ara- 

 bian, the Duke naming the colt Marske, from Mr. Hutton's residence. 

 I here beg leave to return my respectful acknowledgments to the 

 present Mr. Hutton, for his polite and ready answer to a letter, which I 

 lately addressed to him on the subject of portraits. Marske Mas got by 

 Squirt, son of Bartlet's Childers, out of the Ruby mare, by Blacklegs, 

 from a daughter of Bay Bolton, Fox Cub, Coneyskins, Hutton's Grey 

 Barb, Royal Colt, Byerley Turk, Bustler. We have in this pedigree, 

 another proof of the little dependence there is to be placed in the coun- 

 try and blood, assigned by the importers, to foreign Horses. Blacklegs 

 was got by the Mulso Bay Turk, the same Horse commonly styled 

 Huttons Bay Barb. 



Marske beat Brilliant and others four miles, the round heat at New- 

 market, but was an uncertain runner. At His Royal Highness's sale,^ 

 Marske was sold as a stallion, at Tattersal's, to a farmer, for a trifle, and 

 taken into Dorsetshire, where he covered at half-a-guinea. Mr. AVildman 

 afterwards purchased him of this farmer, for twenty pounds, who thought, 

 the Horse well sold at that price. Mr. Wildman also being equally 



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