THE TURF. 
element has no taste for this sport ; but continued it 
for a short time after his brother's death to run out 
his engagements, and also with a view of not throwing 
a damp over a pastime of such high interest to his 
subjects. It was at one time given out, that his Majesty 
had consented to keep his horses in training, provided 
he did not lose more than four thousand pounds per 
annum by them ; but such has not been the case. A 
royal stud, however, still exists at Hampton Court, and 
the following celebrated English stallions are now there, 
exclusive of four Arabians two from the King of Oude, 
and two from the Imaum of Muscat, as presents to his 
Majesty. The former are, the Colonel, by Whisker, 
dam by Delpini, the property of his late Majesty George 
IV. ; Actseon, by Scud, out of Diana, by Stam- 
ford, purchased of Viscount Kelburne for the sum of 
one thousand guineas ; Cain, by Paulowitz, dam by 
Pagnator ; and Rubini, by St. Patrick, out of Slight, 
by Selim : the two latter hired for the use of the stud. 
Of brood mares there are at present no less than thirty- 
three in the paddocks, of which there are forty-three 
varying in size from three to five acres each ; and some 
idea may be formed of the profit or loss of this extensive 
establishment from the following facts : The produce 
are sold annually at Tattersall's, on the Monday in the 
Epsom race-week, being then one year old. At two 
of these sales they brought within a trifle of two hundred 
pounds each ; and at that of the present year, the colts 
and fillies, twenty in number, were knocked down at 
