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now before their eyes Maria, by Herod, 

 out of Lisette by Snap, and Macaria, by 

 Herod, out of Titania by Shakespeare, the 

 one the dam of Waxy, and the other of 

 Mealy, we have reason to believe that they 

 would turn away from many of their own 

 mares in disgust. His contemporary, Mr. 

 Howorth, was likewise strong in horses, 

 and an excellent judge of making a book 

 on a race. But Mr. Bullock, generally 

 known as 'Tom Bullock/ was, we believe, 

 more awake than any of them, and was 

 often heard to declare, that he should wish 

 for nothing more in this world than to be 

 taken for a fool at Newmarket. 



We find the Prince of Wales (George iv.), 

 in 1788, when only in his twenty-sixth 

 year, a winner of the Derby. In 1789 he 

 accompanied the Duke of York to York 

 races, where he purchased his famous horse, 

 Traveller, by Highflyer, which ran the 

 grand match against the late Duke of 

 Bedford's Grey Diomed, on which it is 

 supposed there was more money depending 

 than was ever before known, or has ever 

 been heard of since. But it was in the 

 years 1790 and 1791 that his late majesty's 



