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on him, and when his day was over the farmers bred 

 very extensively from him. Tamburino, a very fine- 

 tempered animal, came before Wandering Boy by 

 Langar, who carried Will Long for four seasons, and 

 then broke the small bone of his hind leg. Among 

 Will's other pets (during the forty-eight years he 

 wore the Badminton green, ten as second whip, eight 

 as first, and thirty as huntsman) were four Lops 

 to wit, Nora, Dairymaid (the dam of Milkman), 

 Little Girl, great at water, and Gawky, the heroine 

 of the twenty-mile Stanton Park day. Fond as he 

 was of Bertha, after whom his present cottage on the 

 confines of Badminton Park is named, Milkman was 

 the one Will loved best to reserve for the lawn meets; 

 and in his 1844 speech, when a testimonial plate was 

 presented to him, he calculated that this horse had 

 carried him about thirteen thousand miles during 

 their seventeen seasons, and that those who could 

 keep up with him, though then in his twenty-fourth 

 year, " would not lose much of the fun." This cele- 

 brated bay was by Shirza out of a Lop mare ; but 

 his half-brother Gim crack, who was as grey as the 

 Shirzas generally were, was much below his form. 

 Sir Richard Sutton's nimble giant Hotspur was bred 

 by the late Duke. He became latterly most dread- 

 fully crooked in the knees, and was sold, we believe, 

 for something under 100 to Mr. James Mason, at 

 TattersalFs. 



Of the breed of Spangle, the darling of Jem Hills^s 

 heart, we have no trace, but simply know that he 

 was purchased from Mr. Tilbury. At present Jem 

 is riding Sailor and Betsy Baker, both fine sixteen- . 

 handers, but not eo far bred, and decidedly not up if 

 Spangle's mark. Blood Royal has never had a ri^ 

 in the Berkeley stud, although it must now be if 

 years since he was in his prime. He was pure 1 

 from the Rev. R. Winniatt, of Guiting Grange 

 cestershire, and was a very superior horse to T 



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