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£20 at Melton, £20 at Spalding, and £15 at Nor- 

 thampton. When running for a plate at Salterly 

 common, Buckhmiter broke a leg, (after running 

 the first heat,) which deprived him of his life, and 

 he was buried near to the pales of Stilton church- 

 yard, where his misfortune happened, in the year 

 1731. 



Though Buckhunter was in a very high form, 

 yet there were horses of his time that would beat 

 him ; but he had rarely an equal, and hardly ever 

 a superior, with relation to those principal points 

 of being capable of running with all degrees of 

 weight, of supporting repeated heats, of travelling 

 and running after, and of continuing to run on for 

 so great a number of years, and to the age that he 

 did. The excessive spirits of his youth rendered 

 him almost ungovernable, and caused him to be 

 castrated, which lost to breeders a promising 

 English stallion. 



The Bald Galloway, (sire of Buckhunter), was 

 bred by Captain Rider of Whittlebury Forest, 

 Northamptonshire. He was got by a barb of 

 Monsieur St. Victor, of France, well known to 

 sportsmen by the name of St. Victor's barb ; his 

 dam was a mare of Captain Rider's, got by Mr. 

 Fenwick's Whynot, (son of his barb) ; his gran dam 

 was a royal mare. The Bald Galloway was also 

 sire of Lord Portmore's Snake and Daftbdil ; Mr. 

 Elstob's Cartouch ; Mr. Duncombe's Dart, (that 



