WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. S97 



PERFORMANCES OF THAT CELEBRATED HORSE 

 VIVIAN. 



IHE PROPERTY OF CAPTAIN LAMB. 



We are enabled, by a favour which we thankfully 

 acknowledge, to lay before our readers a correct account, 

 both on the turf and across country, of this extraordinary 

 horse ; and we are certain that a list of his great perform- 

 ances will be considered an interesting document by those 

 Sportsmen who have noticed his racing career, and remain 

 a lasting record of the astonishing powers of that noble 

 creature the horse. 



In the year 1834, Vivian, bay gelding by Fencer, dam 

 by Spanker, became the property of Captain John Lamb, 

 a gentlemap who then resided at Leamington, and was one 

 of the most ardent supporters of the turf and chace in this 

 county. 



1834. 



Vivian first came out at Warwick Spring Meeting, on 

 the 19th of March, this year, and ruii second to Alice Gray 

 for the Debdale Stakes, beating Agitator and four others. 



His next engagement was of a more important nature, 

 and although a few formed but an indifferent opinion of his 

 chance of success against Cannon Ball, we find him at the 

 post, starting for the Great Northampton Steeple Race, on 

 the 4th of April, with that and another superior horse. The 

 stake was 25 sovereigns each, open to all England, 4 miles, 

 across a severe and thick-fenced country. This race Vivian 

 won, having beaten the b. g. Vanguard, by Vampire, and 

 Mr. Osbaldeston's b. g. Cannon Ball. As that gentleman 

 had challenged the whole kingdom for 500 sovereigns with 

 this horse, and his powers of crossing a country were con- 



