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that of the present year, the colts and fillies, 

 twenty in number, were knocked down at 

 two thousand eight hundred and forty-six 

 guineas, or within a fraction of one hun- 

 dred and forty-two guineas for each. 1 It 

 may be worthy of remark, that a regard 

 has ever been paid in the Hampton Court 

 stud to what is termed stout blood. For 

 example, of the stud horses which those 

 we have now mentioned replaced, Waterloo 

 was out of a Trumpator, Tranby 2 an 

 Orville, Ranter a Beningbrough, and the 

 Colonel a Delpini, mare. This stud is at 

 present under the superintendence of 

 Colonel Wemyss, brother to the Member 

 for Fife, and Equerry to the King, residing 

 at the stud-house, formerly occupied by the 



1 See a list of prices in June (1836) number of The 

 New Sporting Magazine. 



2 Tranby, it will be recollected, performed the 

 hitherto unrivalled feat of carrying Mr. Osbaldeston 

 sixteen miles in thirty-three minutes and fifteen seconds, 

 in his wonderful match against time, over Newmarket 

 course, last October twelve months. The time of each 

 four-mile heat was as follows : 



Heats. Min. Sec. 



ist .... 8 10 



2nd .... 8 o 



3rd .... 8 15 



4th .... 8 50 

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