THE TURF. 
purchased cheaply for seven hundred guineas), had 
Manfred, Sam, Hedley, Castrel, Banker, and Antici- 
pation, as stud-horses, with several good mares from the 
Duke of Grafton and Lord Grosvenor, and, indeed, 
from other celebrated studs within his reach. Like all 
great breeders, Mr. Charlton has had many public sales, 
at one of which the sum of nineteen hundred pounds 
being offered for Henry, by a very badly dressed person 
in the crowd, he was asked by the auctioneer for whom 
he was bidding? "Here is my authority," said the 
man, pointing to his breeches' pocket. A few years 
ago, Mr. Charlton took rather a curious turn, exchanging 
the cap and jacket of the race-course for the wig and 
gown of the courts, and was actually called to the bar. 
Like Dido's love, however, the passion for racing could 
not be smothered in the murky atmosphere of West- 
minster Hall, nearly as gloomy as the vault of Sichaeus ; 
and we found him again with a good string of race-horses. 
There are not many better judges than Mr. Charlton, 
though we fear, like other gentlemen-sportsmen, he has 
paid rather dearly for his experience ; and he has all 
but retired from the turf. Mr. Vansittart has also been 
a long time on the turf, and ran second, 1832, for the 
Derby, with Perion. He is a breeder of race-horses, 
and sold Rockingham for one thousand guineas to 
Mr. Watt. This horse won a good stakes at York 
Spring Meeting, "beautifully ridden by Darling;" and 
the great St. Leger stakes of the same year at Doncaster. 
He is now the property of Mr. Theobald, of Stockwell, 
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