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Russia has Wanota, Coronation, Jereed, Andover, 

 Uriel, Peep-o'-day Boy, Ithuriel, The Squire, and Van 

 ITromp ; Austria boasts herself in Cardinal Puff, Gold- 

 finder, Clincher, Chief Justice, and Old England ; 

 Prussia followed up her Woful purchase with Brutan- 

 dorf, Elis, Sittingbourne, Talfourd, and Mundig ; 

 while Germany purchased Taurus twice over, and has 

 not a few scions of The Nigger, Wolfdog, Sheet 

 Anchor, Rockingham, Glaucus, Augustus, Erymus, 

 St. Nicholas, and Chief Baron Nicholson, in her stalls : 

 The Colonel was repurchased from them, but for very 

 little purpose ; and Euclid and Attila both died on 

 shipboard. Cobnut is now in the Sardinian domi- 

 nions, and even " John Chinaman" has got Black Jack 

 and Little Bo-Peep. A great number of our blood 

 horses also go to the colonies, and about a hundred of 

 them have landed at the Cape alone between 1840 

 and 1856, many of them with pedigrees a foot long, 

 but sadly unsound outcasts withal. In its paddock 

 list we find the names of the symmetrical Battledore, 

 Middleham, Fancy Boy, Evenus, Traverser, Misdeal, 

 Gammon-Box, Sylvan, Gorhambury, Mr. Martin, and 

 Cockermouth. The Cape turf is said to have reached 

 its zenith under Lord Charles Somerset ; and the 

 late Sir Walter Gilbert bore high testimony to the 

 style in which the Dragoon Guards, weighing on the 

 average about twenty stone, were carried through 

 their long marches by its hackneys. Unhappily, the 

 present colonists do not pay such a high price, or 

 import nearly such good horses as they used to do ; 

 and the Mynheers " cultivate assiduously many of 

 the continental prejudices regarding colour and marks, 

 and are particularly solicitous about small pointed 

 ears, a pretty head, and peacocky carriage ; legs and 

 feet, strength and substance, being minor considera- 

 tions."* f 



* Sporting Review > March, 1856. 

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