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Bolton and Lampice) was bred by the d'Arcy 

 family, and got by the White d'Arcy or Sedbury 

 Turk out of a Royal Mare. King Charles II sent 

 abroad the Master of the Horse (which was said by 

 some to be Sir Christopher Wyvill, and by others 

 Sir John Fenwick) in order to procure a number of 

 foreign high-bred horses and mares for breeding ; 

 and the mares thus procured by the king's interest 

 and brought into England (as also several of their 

 offspring) have been called Royal Mares ; one of 

 which was the dam of Hautboy. He was never 

 trained for racing, and was well known to sports- 

 men and breeders by the name of Wilkes's Old 

 Hautboy. He was sire of Old Wyndham, Mr. 

 Fell's Painted Lady, Sir John Parson's Ploughman, 

 Farmer and Clumsy, all three bred by Mr. Wilkes ; 

 the latter of which was sire of Old Fox and Fox 

 Club. Hautboy also got the mare that was the 

 dam of Mr. Darley's Almanzor, Terror and Cham- 

 pion ; the dam of Mr. Lister's Snake ; the dam of 

 the sire of the Gardener Mare, and several 

 others. 



The Acaster Turk, was sire of Chaunter's Terror 

 and Mr. Thwaite's Dun Mare (dam of Mr. 

 Beaver's Driver.) He got the dam of Mr. Wil- 

 liams's Squirrel ; the dam of Mr. Ovington's 

 famous Roxana (dam of Lath and Cade ;) the dam 

 of Mr. Coke's Silverlocks, who was the dam of 

 Lord Portmore's Silvertail, Lord Godolphin's 

 Buffcoat, and grandam of Mr. Croft's Brilliant* 



