70 THE DIFFERE^'T BREEDS OF ENGLISH HORSES. 



accomplished fifty miles and a quarter iu one hour and forty- nine minutes. 

 In 1 763, he won a still more extraordinary match. He engaged to procure 

 a person to ride one hundred miles a day for twenty-nine days, having any 

 number of horses not exceeding twenty-nine from which to make his selec- 

 tion. He accomplished it on fourteen horses ; but on one day he was 

 compelled to ride a hundred and sixty miles, on account of the tiring of 

 his first horse. 



Mr. Hull's Quibbler, however, afforded the most extraordinary instance 

 on record, of the stoutness as well as speed of the race-horse. In Decem- 

 ber, 1786, he ran twenty-three miles round the flat at Newmarket, in fifty- 

 seven minutes and ten seconds. 



Eclipse was got by Marsk, a grandson of Bartlett's Childers, and his 

 pedigree affords a singular illustration of the descent of oui; thorough-bred 

 horses from pure Eastern blood : — • 



- Bartlett'8 Cliildcrs 



(Darlcy Arabian. 



(Betty Leeds (carclcss {siiaiiker [Barb Mam. 



, (Lifter Turk. 



Snake . J Daughter I j,,^,. _ flVArceyWliite Turk 



< (of Hautboy i Hautboy |R„yal Mare. 



I Daughter > ,, ^. 

 *■ of Hautboy j Hautboy. 

 Hutton'8 Black Legs / Hutton s Bay Turk. (-, . , _ . 



i (Coneyskins 'Lister Turk. 



I (Daughter of . } ^ t. 



I / (Daughter of /Hautboy. 



(.Daughter of > (Clumsy , (Hautbov. ^ 



, Fox Club { } 



iDauglitcrof I (Daughter of 1 Leeds Arabian. 



I„ (Coneyskins (Lister Turk. 



Dauglucr of { I 



(Daugliter of •jHutton's Grey Bart) 

 jGodolphin Arabian. 

 , 1 ( Bald Galloway. , 



Krgulus . . . (Daughter of J ( Snake [Lister Turk. 



(Daughter of < I 



^l'''";''* .. .,, (Old Wilkes, by Hautboy 



, (Smith's Son of Snake. •' •' 



^Mother Western |oid Montague |Daughter of Hautboy. 



The pedigree of Eclipse will likewise afford another curious illustration 

 of the uncertamty which attends thorough-bred horses. Marsk was sold 

 at the sale of the Duke of Cumberland's stud for a mere trifle, and was 

 sufiered to run abnost wild on the New Forest. He was afterwards 

 purchased for one thousand guineas, and before his death covered for one 

 hundred guineas. Squirt, when the property of Sir Harry Harpui^ was 

 ordered to be shot ; and while he was actually being led to the doo--kennel 

 he was spared at the intercession of one of Sir Harry's grooms. ° Neither 

 Bartlett's Childers, nor Snake, were ever trained. On the side of the dam, 

 bpiletta never started but once and was beaten; and the Godolphin 

 Ai-abian was purchased from a water cart in Paris. 



^r'^w?!^^ ^^^ ^^^'^ ^^ *^® ^^"^^ "^ Cumberland, and sold at Ms death to 

 Mr. Wildman, a sheep salesman, for seventy- five guineas. Colonel O'Kelly 

 purchased a share of him from Wildman. In the spring of the follo^vino• 

 ye^-, when the reputation of this wonderful animal was at its heio-ht" 

 O Kelly wished to become sole owner of him, and bought the remainino- 

 share for eleven hundred guineas. - '^ 



Eclipse was what was termed a thick-wLaded horse, and pufied and 

 roared so as to be heard at a considerable distance. For this or some other 

 cause, he was not brought on the turf until he was five years old. 



O'Kelly, aware of his horse's powers, had backed him freely on his first 

 race, m May 1769. This excited curiosity, or, perhaps, roused suspicion, 

 and some persons attempted to watch one of his trials. Mr John Law- 

 rence says, that, ' they were a little too late ; but they found an old woman 

 who gave them all the information they wanted. On inquiring whether 

 she had seen a race, she rephed she could not tell whether it was a race or 



