BRITISH TURF. 5'J5 



By his prolific deeds was built a court,* 

 Near where famed Ely's lofty turrets rise. 

 To this famed sultan would all ranksf resort. 

 To stir him up to am'rous enterprise. 



To these three patriarchs]: the turf shall owe 

 The long existence of superior breed. 

 That blood in endless progeny shall flow. 

 To give the Uon's strength, and roebuck speed. 



Mr. Tattersall built an elegant mansion, near 

 Ely, out of the fortune he acquired by this famous 

 horse, and called it '' Highflyer Hall," after him. 



HoLLANDoisE. A grcy mare, foaled in 1775, 

 bred by Thomas Stapleton, Esq., of Charleton, 

 near Snaith, Yorkshire, and was the joint property 

 of Mr. Stapleton and Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bart. 

 Hollandoise was got by Match'em ; her dam, 

 Virago. 



At Doncaster, September 22nd, 1778, Hollan- 

 doise won the St. Leger stakes of 25 gs. each, 

 sixteen subscribers, two miles, beating Sir J. L. 

 Kaye's br. colt, by Wildair out of Ovid's dam, 

 Mr. Goodrick's Trinculo, Mr. Earle's Mariner, 

 Mr. Vever's Young Morwick, and three others ; 

 six to four against the Wildair colt, five to two 

 against Hollandoise, three to one against Trinculo, 

 and four to one against Young Morwick ; won 

 easy. She was rode by George Herring. In 1779, 

 she did not start. At Newmarket First Spring 



* An elegant ■silla, with beautiful premises, near Ely. 

 t Brood mares, from the Dairymaid, &c., to the Duchess, Princess, 

 and Queen. 

 X Childers, Eclipse, and Highflyer. 



