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Jack" tore along on Ptarmigan and Durham, are 

 " great facts " in the history of Quorn. Speaking 

 within limits, between 1847 and his death, Sir Richard 

 had no less than twenty-five or thirty horses of a class, 

 that could make themselves remembered over the pas- 

 ture lands of Leicestershire. The Muley blood is well 

 represented by Drayton, whose stock is getting very 

 valuable, and Little Known ; one of the latter' s colts 

 at Beverley Fair, some four years back, struck us as 

 a dainty model of a heavy-weight hunter : but, after 

 all said and done, dealers will tell you with truth that 

 there are not more than six or seven hunters, so to 

 speak, foaled in England each year. The Freneys, 

 King David to wit, are very good, and have always a 

 clean wiry look about them, without that temper 

 which their sire used to show by perpetually snapping 

 round at his jockey's legs. The judges at Malton, 

 too, who gave the prize in 1855 for the best hunting 

 sire to Burgundy, had their fiat indorsed by every 

 member of the great horse-flesh congress, who saw 

 him aired up and down the High-street at Doncaster 

 on each of the race mornings. Russia knew his 

 value better than Yorkshire, but he died almost 

 immediately on landing. Fencing has always been 

 the forte of the Ishmaels, and although Burgundy' s 

 performances were confined to the turf, the tastes 

 of the family have come prominently out in Switcher, 

 Shinrone, Israelite, and Abd-el-Kader. The fact of 

 his dam being an Ishmael also augurs well for 

 Augur, who is so wonderfully muscular, that at 

 first sight he would seem to have a bend -sinister 

 in his escutcheon. The inartistic application of 

 Major's Remedy threatened at one time to strip 

 every vestige of hair from his legs, and to eat off his 

 hoofs as well, and he actually lived on his knees for 

 weeks till they secreted again, the most extraordinary 

 object that veterinary ever beheld. Racing mares 

 are, we fear, likely to claim his sole attentions in 



