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thousand pounds per annum by them ; but 

 such has not been the case. A royal stud, 

 however, still exists at Hampton Court, and 

 the following celebrated English stallions 

 are now there, exclusive of four Arabians 

 two from the King of Oude, and two from 

 the Imaum of Muscat, as presents to his 

 Majesty. The former are : the Colonel, by 

 Whisker, dam by Delpini, the property of 

 his late Majesty George iv. ; Actaeon, by 

 Scud, out of Diana, by Stamford, purchased 

 of Viscount Kelburne for the sum of one 

 thousand guineas ; Cain, by Paulowitz, dam 

 by Pagnator; and Rubini, by St. Patrick, 

 out of Slight, by Selim : the two latter hired 

 for the use of the stud. Of brood mares 

 there are at present no less than thirty- 

 three in the paddocks, of which there are 

 forty-three, varying in size from three to 

 five acres each; and some idea may be 

 formed of the profit or loss of this exten- 

 sive establishment from the following facts : 

 The produce are annually sold at Tatter- 

 sail's, on the Monday in the Epsom race- 

 week, being then one year old. At 

 two of these sales they brought within a 

 trifle of two hundred pounds each ; and at 



