THE TURF. 
Halm, by Godolphin, out of a Whalebone mare sold to 
the count by himself.* It will be recollected that Count 
Hahn purchased Godolphin, and resold him to England, 
after having used him one season as a stud-horse. 
But it is in the New World in America that 
racing, and the consequent improvement of horses, are 
making the most rapid progress; so much so indeed 
as, from the excellent choice they make in their stud- 
horses, to incline some persons to the opinion that in 
the course of half another century we shall have to go 
to the United States to replenish our own blood, which 
must degenerate if that of the most sound and enduring 
qualities is transported to that country. For example, in 
the American " Turf Register" for March last is a list of 
twenty-nine thorough-bred English horses propagating 
their stock throughout the various states, amongst which 
are Apparition, Autocrat, Barefoot, Claret, Chateau Mar- 
gaux, Consol, Emancipation, Hedgeford, Luzborough, 
Leviathan, Lapdog, Margrave, Merman, Rowton, Sarpe- 
don, St. Giles, Shakspeare, Tranby, and Young Truffle. 
To these are to be added Glencoe, and, alas ! Priam, at the 
extraordinary cost of three thousand five hundred guineas ! 
The great and leading qualification of a horse bred 
for the turf is the immaculate purity of his blood. It 
is, then, little less than a misnomer to call a half-bred 
horse a race-horse ; it is like the royal stamp impressed 
* Baron Biel has at present the following stud-horses : Varro, brother 
to .Emilius; Predictor; the brother to Interpreter; the General; arid 
Joceline, by Catton, out of General Mina's dam. 
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