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Persian or Syrian, with a considerable mixture of Arabian blooJ. In 

 the Plate of Ponies, the Welsh one, is that which last year ran suc- 

 cessfully from London to Exeter, against the mail coach. 



Having introduced so many old pedigrees, I shall finish with that of 

 the favourite and most successful stallion, of the pressnt times. Sorcerer, 

 the property of, and bred by. Sir Charles Bunbury, at Great Barton, in 

 Suffolk. lie is a black Horse, sixteen hands, one inch high, foaled in 

 1790, got by Trumpator, out of Young Giantess. Trumpator was got by 

 Conductor, full brother to Dictator, Alfred, &c. out of Brunette, by 

 Squirrel. Conductor was got by Matchem, dam by Old Snap. 

 Matchem, as has been said, was got by Old Cade, one of the highest- 

 bred sons of the Godolphin Arabian, out of a Partner mare. Young 

 Giantess, the dam also of Eleanor, was got by Sir Charles's Diomed, 

 grandson of King Herod, through Florizel, out of Giantess, a grand- 

 daughter of Babram. Thus is centered in Sorcerer, the best blood of 

 the Byerley Turk, Darley, and Godolphin Arabians, of Basto, Chil- 

 ders, Partner, Cade, Matchem, Snap, Herod, Squirrel, and most of 

 our highest-formed racers. He and the rest of Trumpator's stock, 

 have, doubtless, obtained their characteristic speed from the Squirrel 

 mare. Brunette, the dam of Trumpator ; and Sorcerer's great size and 

 substance may have been originally derived from the cross of Babram, 

 sire of the dam of Giantess. It is most remarkable, that from the 

 above stallions, Babram and Squirrel, have generally descended to their 

 remotest progeny, their prominent qualities, size and substance from 

 the one, and speed from the other. Sorcerer had both great speed and 

 activity, and ran his course honestly through. Diomed, sire of the 

 dam of Sorcerer, bred also by Sir Charles Bunbury, was sent to Vir- 

 ''>-inia, at the age of twenty-two, where he has covered a great number 

 of mares, and was there living, thirty years of age, in 1807. He seems 

 to have succeeded in that country, the famous Shark. I have been 

 informed, that Sir Charles refused two thousand guineas for a three- 

 year-old son of Sorcerer. 



Having formerly, in my Treatise on Horses, remarked on the com- 

 mon error of over-working the Race-horse in his exercise, I shall here 



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