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twenty, besides four thousand pounds in 

 specie ! The Doctor was one of the few 

 modern racers that has appeared at the 

 post for ten consecutive years during which 

 period, however, he only started forty-nine 

 times, or within a fraction of five times in 

 each year, on the average winning twenty- 

 six out of the above number of races. To 

 this careful husbanding of his powers may 

 his owners have been indebted for a great 

 portion of his success. But he is descended 

 from our very stoutest blood, being got by 

 a son of Trumpator, as well as combining 

 that of Regulus and Snap in his pedigree. 

 He was bred by Mr. Osbaldeston, of 

 Hummondsby, Yorkshire; and is the sire 

 of Gallopade, a winner of four gold cups, 

 at four starts only. Mr. Riddell was the 

 breeder of Emancipation, purchased by the 

 Duke of Cleveland for eighteen hundred 

 guineas. 



Deservedly high as Newmarket stands in 

 the history of the British turf, it is but as 

 a speck on the ocean when compared with 

 the sum total of our provincial meetings, 

 of which there are about a hundred and 

 twenty in England, Scotland, and Wales 



