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Grafton stud may be traced to one mare, 

 and therefore the history of her is worth 

 relating. In 1756, Julia, by Blank, was 

 bred by Mr. Panton, of great Newmarket 

 fame (her pedigree running back not only 

 to Bay Bolton, Barley's Arabian, and the 

 Byerly Turk, but beyond the Lord Pro- 

 tector's White Turk, generally the ne plus 

 ultra of pedigrees, to the Taffolet Barb, 

 and the Natural Barb mare), and at seven 

 years old was put into the Duke's stud, 

 and produced Promise, by Snap, Promise 

 produced Prunella, by Highflyer, the dam 

 of eleven first-rate horses, whose names 

 (after the manner of fox-hounds) all begin 

 with the letter P, the first letter of the 

 mare's name, and she is said to have 

 realised to the Grafton family little short 

 of one hundred thousand pounds. In fact, 

 all breeders of race-horses try for a strain 

 of the justly celebrated Prunella. The all- 

 graceful Hamilton (often called 'Zeluco') 

 was equally conspicuous in the North, and 

 celebrated for stout blood. He won the 

 St. Leger no less than seven times, a 

 circumstance quite unparalleled on the turf: 

 and ran first for it the eighth, but the 



