THE TURF. 
the turf with his Waxy, Worthy, Wowski, &c. ; and 
could some of our present breeders of race-horses have 
now before their eyes Maria, by Herod, out of Lisette 
by Snap, and Macaria, by Herod, out of Titania by 
Shakspeare, the one the dam of Waxy, and the other of 
Mealy, we have reason to believe that they would turn 
away from many of their own mares in disgust. His 
contemporary, Mr. Howorth, was likewise strong in 
horses, and an excellent judge of making a book on a 
race. But Mr. Bullock, generally known as " Tom 
Bullock," was, we believe, more awake than any of 
them, and was often heard to declare, that he should 
wish for nothing more in this world than to be taken for 
a fool at Newmarket. 
We find the Prince of Wales (George IV.), in 1788, 
when only in his twenty-sixth year, a winner of the 
Derby. In 1789, he accompanied the Duke of York 
to York races, where he purchased his famous horse 
Traveller, by Highflyer, which ran the grand match 
against the late Duke of Bedford's Grey Diomed, on 
which it is supposed there was more money depending 
than was ever before known, or has ever been heard of 
since. But it was in the years 1790 and 1791 that his 
late majesty's stud was so conspicuous the days of 
Baronet and Escape ; the former notorious for winning 
the Ascot Oatlands, beating eighteen picked horses of 
England, with twenty to one against him ; and the 
latter, for his various races against Grey Diomed, which 
caused his royal owner's retirement from Newmarket. 
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