THE TURF. 
and has been a great winner up to the present time. 
Mr. Vansittart is a good judge, and always runs his 
horses to win, if they can. Mr. Hunter, of Six-Mile- 
Bolton, near Newmarket, is a first-rate judge of racing, 
and considered a good bettor. He won the Derby in 
1821, with Gustavus, and has since used him as a stud- 
horse, but not to much profit. He made some amends 
by producing Forester, the winner of the July stakes, in 
1832, and of several other things, and who was backed 
freely for the Derby, being out of an Orville mare. With 
the exception of the great card in their pack, all the 
Peels have a taste for the turf. The Colonel, however, is 
the only one who has the courage to face Newmarket 
which he does with nearly as good a stud as is to be 
found even there, and has had his share of success. 
The Colonel is a heavy bettor, and loses with a philoso- 
phic indifference, worthy of a nobler cause. Mr. Edmund 
Peel has a large stud at Hednesford, in Staffordshire, 
where he has erected excellent buildings for their accom- 
modation. Mr. Massey Stanley, son to Sir Thomas, has 
a small but neat stud. Mr. Sowerby has likewise a 
pretty stud, which he uses like a gentleman, for his 
amusement. Mr. Scott Stonehewer is one of the same 
class, and won the Oaks with Variation, in 1830. 
Mr. Payne, of Sulby, has generally a small stud at 
Newmarket ; and Mr. Osbaldeston has made his appear- 
ance on the heath, not as the Hercules of horsemen, as 
he proved himself in his awful match against time, but 
as the owner of a string of race-horses. We had rather 
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