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cut Avitli the wliip on a, tender part, and instantly hung back and lost the 

 race. With respect to the hot-spirited and washy horses, if they cannot 

 win without the aid of the whip, they will seldom vnn with it.' 



We have been enabled to place at the head of our chapter a portrait of 

 ' The Colonel,' taken for this work by Mr. Harvey ; and Mr. Goodwin, 

 veterinary surgeon to the Queen, has kindly furnished us with a considei"- 

 able part of the following account of him and of Fleur-de-Lis : — 



He was a chesnut horse, fifteen hands three inches high, with good sub- 

 stance, capital legs and feet, and true action, bred by Mr. Petre, in 1825. 

 He Avas got by ^VTiisker out of a Delphini mare — her dam, Tipple Cider, 

 by King Fergus — the grandam was Sylvia, by Young ]\Iarsk, out of Ferret, 

 by a brother to Sylvio-Regulus, &c. 



He came out in 1827, when he won the two-years stakes, beating Kitty, 

 a colt by Trump, and a black colt by "Whisker. 



In the same year he carried off the two-years old stakes at Pontefract, 

 beating Vanish ; and the Chamjiagne stakes at Doncaster, beating a filly 

 by Blackleg. 



In 1828 he ran a dead heat with Cadland for the Derby, beating Zin- 

 ganee and twelve others, but he lost the second heat. He won, however, 

 the St. Leger at Doncaster, beating Belinda, Velocipede, and seventeen 

 others ; and walked over for the 200 sovereigns stakes at the same place. 

 At the latter end of 1828 he was sold by Mr.'Petre to George IV. for 4,000 

 guineas. He continued, however, on the turf, and won many races. 



In 1829 he was beaten at the York Spring Meeting, by Bessie Bedlam, 

 in a match for 300 sovereigTis each — the St. Leger course. He started, but 

 was not placed, for the gold cup at Ascot, being beaten by Zinganee and 

 Mameluke. 



In 1830 he won the Craven stakes often sovereigns each, beating Harold, 

 Clio, and eight others. He ran second for the gold cup at Ascot, being 

 beaten by Lucetta, but beating Greenmantle and Zinganee. In the same 

 year he won a sweepstake at Stockbridge ; and ran third for the gold cup 

 at Goodwood, but was beaten by Fleur-de-lis and Zinganee. 



In 1831 he won the Craven stakes at Epsom ; and ran a dead heat with 

 Mouch for the Oatlands at Ascot ; but running the second heat with her, 

 he broke down — the suspensory Hgaments failing in both hind legs. He 

 did not continue lame ; but the enlargement of the fetlock, and the traces 

 of the iron, plainly indicated that he could no longer be depended upon as 

 a racer. 



The Colonel was not successful as a stallion ; he was sent to Germany 

 by the Messrs. Tattersall, where he met with no better success, and was 

 brought back to this country to finish a career that scarcely left an animal 

 behind him of the smallest notoriety. 



We are also gratified in being enabled to present our readers with a 

 portrait of that beautiful and almost unrivalled mare, Fleur-de-Lis, by the 

 same artist. 



She was bred by Sir M. W. Ridley, in 1822, and was got by Bourbon, 

 the son of Sorcerer, out of Lady Rachel, by Stamford — her dam, Young 

 Rachel, by Volunteer, out of Rachel, sister to Maid of All Work, and by 

 both the sire and the dam was descended from Highflyer. Bourbon started 

 twenty-thi'ee times, out of which he was successful seventeen times ; and 

 carried ofi'two classes of the Newmarket October Oatland stakes, the Claret, 

 the Craven, and the Trial, besides 4,130 guineas in specie. 



She was the finest mare in form and size ever produced in England. She 

 stood fully sixteen hands, and had extraordinary good legs, and feet that 

 never failed. Her speed was good, but her forte was distance. Inde- 

 pendent of her being so fine a mare hi every other respect, her chest waa 



