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with a Phantom ; and the dam of Voltigeur, who Is 

 coarser in his points than his sire, was a Mulatto. 

 The Saddler blood is synonymous with stoutness ; 

 and "The Squire^ was at one time as fond of it as 

 he has latterly become of Touchstone's, but that of 

 Comus does not stand now where it promised to do 

 in Reveller's day, when he and his two half-brothers 

 all from the Belle-Isle stables were alone placed 

 for the St. Leger ; and even the great Lucetta did 

 not sustain its prestige, when she ceased to bear the 

 white banner of Sir Mark. One of the greatest 

 racing bargains ever made was when Sir Charles 

 Turner purchased Hambletonion, 3 yrs., Beningbo- 

 rough, 4 yrs., and Oberon, 5 yrs., from Mr. J. 

 Hutchinson, with their engagements, for 3,000 gui- 

 neas, at York August, and won every race but one 

 with the two first at the very next Doncaster Meet- 

 ing. Mr. Thomas Parr, the Turf Talleyrand, who 

 is certainly one of the most remarkable studies of 

 acute man nature that the world possesses, gave at in- 

 tervals something between 500 and 600, in all for 

 Weathergage, Saucebox, Defiance, Clothworker, and 

 Mortimer, whose sales and stakes alone produced him 

 about .20,000. How strangely this luck contrasts 

 with the lamentation we lately heard from an owner's 

 lips, as he looked at a little wretch, for which he had 

 given very little short of 1,000 guineas in a straw- 

 yard, and devoutly wished that any one would take 

 it out of his sight. The dams of Crucifix and The 

 Hero, with those great racers at their foot, and a 

 Wildgoose mare in foal with Blacklock, did not 

 average 20 guineas apiece; BlacklocVs dam was 

 picked up for 3 at a fair; the dam of Mr. Val 

 Maher's wonderful grey hunter Leatherhead was 

 bought for a guinea ; and it may also be mentioned, 

 that when the late Mr. Stephenson became tired of 

 his brood mares, he offered a friend the choice of 

 Martha Lynn (heavy in foal with Voltigeur), Yarico, 



