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 including The Colonel and Actseon and two 



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imported Arabs, 3,556 guineas. 



Actuated by patriotic motives and un- 

 willing that so fine a horse should go abroad, 

 Mr. Richard Tattersall bought The Colonel 

 for i, 600 guineas ; a price which was then 

 considered a very large one. The total 

 realised by sale of the stud, including a 

 couple of geldings, was 15,692 guineas. 

 Thirteen years later, in 1850, the clear- 

 sightedness of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, 

 saw that the dispersal had been a mistake, 

 and that year saw the foundation of a new 

 stud which flourished until 1894, when it was 

 sent to the hammer. Regarding this second 

 dispersal, it was urged that the stud did not 

 pay its expenses ; and although it produced 

 The Earl, Springfield and La Fleche, good 

 judges, including the late General Peel, were 

 of opinion that the ground, on which for so 

 many years Thoroughbreds had been reared, 

 was tainted and therefore needed rest. 



In 1840 the fifth Duke of Richmond 

 brought in a bill to repeal those clauses of 

 13 George II. which still remained on the 

 Statute Book limiting the value of stakes, 

 and this measure passed into law, not with- 

 out opposition (3 and 4 Vic. 5). Some 

 interesting evidence bearing on our subject 



