THE TURF. 
stud. Amongst the number, was the celebrated mare 
Persepolis, the dam of thirteen good racers ; amongst 
which were Araxes, Tigris, Indus, Euphrates, Phasis, 
and Cydnus, all sons of Quiz, and Granicus and 
Rubicon by Sorcerer. The famous brood mares > 
Cobbaea (the dam of Sorcery) and Grey Duchess, by 
Pot-8-o's, were also in his lordship's stud, and presented 
by him to George IV. when he commenced breeding 
race-horses at Hampton Court. The present Lord 
Stradbroke and his Grace of Richmond were con- 
federates on the turf. 
The Earl of Orford took the field a few years back 
as usual, with a tolerably large string of horses ; and, 
to use his own words, when he won the Great Produce 
stakes at Ascot, with his Muley filly, and the Clearwell 
stakes with his Clearwell colt (a clear thousand by the 
way, and the other five hundred), "got out of his 
place," which had generally been a good second. He 
ran second, indeed, with Ascot, for a Derby ; and good 
judges say, his horse ought to have won. His lordship, 
however, takes all this with perfect good humour, and is 
himself always a favourite at Newmarket, should his 
horse not prove to be so. The noble earl is considered 
a very liberal match-maker; but he has lately been 
running so forward as to be considered able to take 
care of himself. Of the Earls Verulam, Warwick, and 
Clarendon, we now hear but little, although the first- 
named lord is rather an extensive breeder. Lord Cla- 
rendon we consider little more than an amateur. Earl 
