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ridden many good winners, and he is almost sure 

 to be seen in the colours of one or both of the 

 latter gentlemen at every race meeting of any 

 importance. It was in the colours of these 

 gentlemen that he won all the great weight-for- 

 age races, and he has also won the Two Thousand 

 on Vedette, Prince Charlie, and Ayrshire, and the 

 St- Leger on Lord St. Vincent's Lord Clifden. 



Mr. Kinp-'s connexion with the Asho'ill stable 

 was a long and a pleasant one, and many famous 

 racehorses came from the small stud at Ashby. 

 Mr. King's stud commenced in a very small Avay. 

 His father. Col. King, made him a present of 

 Lunatic, a half-sister to Bedlamite, when she was 

 done racing. He sent her to Filho da Puta, and 

 the result was Bessy Bedlam, a very high-class 

 mare. Mr. King gave the foal to his father, and 

 she won him several good races and also was 

 fairly successful at the stud. From Lunatic are 

 descended the best of Mr. King's racehorses, 

 through her daughter, Moonbeam by Tomboy, 

 a mare that won several races for Mr. Brook 

 before he sold her back to Mr. King. She bred 

 several winners, but it was not until she had been 

 at the stud ten years that she produced Manganese 

 by Birdcatcher, the mare on whom her reputation 

 chiefly rests. 



Manganese was the first racehorse of any note 

 which Mr. King owned, and she ran in the nom- 

 ination of Mr. W. H. Brook, a cousin of his, who, 



