THE TURF. 
we could name been possessed of his stud imperfect, 
perhaps, as it might have been as far as the real object 
of breeding horses is at stake they would have won 
everything before them at the present distances and 
weights. His much-talked-of, and justly celebrated, 
Smolensko died rather early in life, and his stock, with 
a few exceptions, did not realise the hopes and expecta- 
tion of the sporting world. 
The name and exploits of the late Duke of Queens- 
bury (" Old Q.") will never be forgotten by the 
sporting world ; for whether we consider his judgment, 
his ingenuity, his invention, or his success, he was one 
of the most distinguished characters on the English 
turf. His horse Dash, by Florizel, bred by Mr. 
Vernon, beat Sir Peter Teazle over the six-mile course 
at Newmarket for one thousand guineas, having refused 
five hundred forfeit* ; also his late majesty's Don 
Quixote, the same distance and for the same sum ; and, 
during the year 1789, he won two other one thousand- 
guinea matches, the last against Lord Barrymore's 
Highlander, eight stone seven pounds each, three times 
round "the round course," or very nearly twelve miles ! 
His carriage match, nineteen miles in one hour, with the 
same horses, and- those four of the highest bred ones of 
the day, was undoubtedly a great undertaking, nor do 
we believe it has ever been exceeded. His singular bet 
of conveying a letter fifty miles within an hour, was a 
* Dash carried six stone seven pounds, Sir Peter nine stone. 
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