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Arabian covered daring the remainder of his hfe, in 

 the same stud, producing yearly a succession of pro- 

 digies of the species. He died in 1 753, in his 

 twenty-ninth year, and his remains were deposited 

 in a covered passage leading to the stable, a fiat, 

 thankless stone, bare of any inscription, being placed 

 over him. 



The following famous racers, some of which were 

 of great size and power, besides many others of infe- 

 rior note, with a great number of capital racing; and 

 blood mares, descended from the Godolphin Ara- 

 bian : — Lath, Cade, Regulus, Babram, Blank, Dismal, 

 Bajazet, Tamerlane, Tarquin, Phoenix, Slug, Blossom, 

 Dormouse, Skewball, Sultan, Old England, Noble, 

 the Gower Stalhon, Godolphin colt, Cripple, En- 

 trance. The sums put in circulation by the nun\e- 

 rous descendants of the above two racing stallions, 

 have been immense. 



Smolensko, the property of Sir Charles Bunbury, 

 wdiicli, during his racing career, excited a greater 

 share of the public curiosity than any of the most 

 famous of his predecessors, in 1813 won the two great 

 stakes in the Newmarket Spring Meetings, immedi- 

 ately afterwards the Derby Stakes at Epsom, and the 

 Magna Charta Stakes at Egham in the following 

 August. It was even betting for the Derby between 

 Smolensko and the field ; and an unfortunate gentle- 

 man, backing the field to a large amount, had not 

 sufficient firmness of mind to bear up against the 

 consequence of his own imprudence. A few days, 

 however, before the race, a report getting abroad that 

 the horse was lame, and he being seen without one of 

 his shoes. Sir Charles Bunbury took and won five and 

 six hundred pounds to ten, three times over. The 

 ^»etting soon returned to its former state. At »his 



