4f, THE HORSE. 



eigl> yards) in seven minutes and thirty seconds. In 1772 a mile WM 

 run oy Firetail, in one minute and four seconds. 



In October, 1741, at the Curragh meeting in Ireland, Mr. Wilde engagea 

 to ride one hundred and twenty-seven miles in nine hours. He performed 

 it in six hours and twenty-one minutes. He employed ten horses, and, 

 allowing for mounting and dismounting, and a moment for refreshment, he 

 rode for six hours at the rate of twenty miles an hour. 



Mr. Thornhill, in 1745, exceeded this, for he rode from Stilton to Lon- 

 don and back, and again to Stilton, being two hundred and thirteen miles, 

 in eleven hours and thirty-four minutes, which is, after allowing the least 

 l)0ssible time for changing horses, twenty miles an hour for eleven hours, 

 and on the turnpike road and uneven ground. 



Mr. Shaftoe, in 1762, with ten horses, and five of them ridden twice, 

 accomplished fifty miles and a quarter, in one hour and forty-nine minutes. 

 In 1763, Mr. Shaftoe won a more extraordinary match. He was to 

 procure a person to ride one hundred miles a day, on any one horse each 

 day, for twenty-nine days together, and to have any number of horses not 

 exceeding twenty-nine. He accomplished it on fourteen horses; and on 

 one day he rode one hundred and sixty miles, on account of the tiring of 

 his first horse. 



Mr. Hull's Quibbler, however, afforded the most extraordinary instance, 

 on record of the stoutness as well as speed of the race-horse. In Decem- 

 ber, 1786, he ran twenty-three miles round the flat at Newmarket, in fifty- 

 seven minutes and ten seconds. 



ECLIPSE. 



Eclipse was got by Marsk, a grandson of Bartlett's Childers.* 



* The pedigree of Eclipse affords a singular illustration of the d 'scent of our ihorougb- 

 bred horses from pure Eastern blood. 



( Darley Arabian, 

 f Bartlett's ChUders . . j g^^^^ ^eeds \ Careless j Shank- \ Barb Mare 



Squirt \ ( Snake . . . . ( Lister Turk, 



I Dam of < Daughter ( tto,.«>,«„ S DArceyWhiteTiirll 



•- • ' ^ Hautboy. P'^^t^oy Uoyal Mare. 



Caroline and Shock . 



Daughter of ' 



Hautboy 



I Hautboy. 

 (Hutton's Be 

 Hutton's Black Legs ^ ( Coneyskins. ] Lister Turk. 



( Daughter of < 



Hutton's Bay Turk. 



, Daughter of 



I Daughter of < Hautboy 



( Clumsy. } Hautboy. 

 Fox Cub ^ ' , 



( Daughter of I Leeds Arabian. 

 ( Coneyskins . \ Lister Turk. 

 Daughter of { 5 



( Daughter of ] Hutton's Grey Barb. 



iGodolphin Arabian. 

 ( Bald Galloway. , 



Daughter of } C Snake. I Lister Turk. 



' Old Wilkes, by Hautboy. 



( Old Montague j Daughter of Hautboy 



The pediaree of Eclipse will likewise afford us another curious illustration of the un- 

 certainty which attends thorough-bred horses. Marsk was sold at the sale of the Duke 

 of Cumberland's stud for a mere trifle, and was suffered to run almost wild on the New 



Daughter of ■ 



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