THE TURF. 
the large subject of the provincial studs, we cannot 
omit a notice of the late Mr. Riddell, of Felton Park, 
Northumberland, who died about four years back. He 
was a firm and liberal supporter of the northern turf, 
but conspicuous chiefly as the owner of two very cele- 
brated horses, viz., X. Y. Z. and Doctor Syntax 
unparalleled winners of gold cups ; the former having 
won nine, and the latter twenty, besides four thousand 
pounds in specie ! The Doctor was one of the few 
modern racers that has appeared at the post for ten 
consecutive years ; during which period, however, he 
only started forty-nine times, or within a fraction of five 
times in each year, on the average winning twenty- 
six out of the above number of races. To this careful 
husbanding of his powers may his owners have been 
indebted for a great portion of his success. But he is 
descended from our very stoutest blood, being got by a 
son of Trumpator, as well as combining that of Regulus 
and Snap in his pedigree. He was bred by Mr. Osbal- 
deston, of Hummondsby, Yorkshire ; and is the sire of 
Gallopade, a winner of four gold cups, at four starts 
only. Mr. Riddell was the breeder of Emancipation, 
purchased by the Duke of Cleveland for eighteen hundred 
guineas. 
Deservedly high as Newmarket stands in the history 
of the British turf, it is but as a speck on the ocean 
when compared with the sum total of our provincial 
meetings, of which there are about a hundred and 
twenty in England, Scotland, and Wales several of 
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