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his artistic abilities in request as soon as he 

 renounced his seat on the coach- box. He painted 

 portraits of nearly all the celebrated horses running 

 on the turf for thirty-three years. A complete 

 collection of his race horses would form prac- 

 tically a pictorial history of the English turf during 

 that period. 



We cannot attempt to give a list of Herring's 

 race-horse portraits, but a few of those represent- 

 ing the more famous animals may be mentioned : 

 Touchstone, who started twenty-one times, won 

 nine races, including the St. Leger, 1834; walked 

 over for seven and lost five ; Queen of Trumps, 

 winner of the Oaks and St. Leger, 1835 ; Elis, 

 winner of numerous races, ending with the St. 

 Leger, 1836 ; Bay Middleton, winner of the Two 

 Thousand and Derby, 1836 ; Cyprian, winner 

 of the Oaks, 1836 ; Phosphorus, winner of the 

 Derby, 1837 ; Miss Letty, winner of the Oaks, 

 1837; Don John, winner of the St. Leger, 1838; 

 Crucifix, winner of the One Thousand, Two 

 Thousand, and Oaks, 1840 ; Coronation, winner 

 of the Derby, 1841 ; Ghuznee, winner of the 

 Oaks, 1841 ; Nutwith, winner of the St. Leger 

 1843 ; Orlando, winner of the Derby, 1844 ; 

 Faugh-a-Ballagh, winner of the Two Thousand 

 and Cesarewitch, 1844; Merry Monarch, winner 

 of the Derby, 1845 ; The Baron, winner of the St. 



