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favourite with Lord Zetland, and when at Aske rarely 

 a day passed when his lordship did not cast his admiring 

 eyes over him. The Landseer canvas in the Aske 

 gallery reproduces in life size Voltaire's great son. 



At one time, according to John Osborne, that 

 eminent turf authority, Mr. John Corlett, shared in 

 Dr. Shorthouse's aversion to the Blacklock blood. Of 

 late years he has become a convert from that faith, 

 in proof whereof we quote from a recent article of his 

 the following interesting particulars about Galopin, 

 who is Vedette's greatest son : — 



" It is astonishing how the different strains 

 of blood have their day. They come and go like 

 everything else. Last year Galopin was at the 

 head of the list of winning sires, and this year 

 it is his mares that have brought him to the 

 front. His daughters have produced winners 

 of nearly £50,000, and that places him at the 

 top of the tree by a long way. A subscription 

 to his son, St. Simon, is scarcely to be obtained 

 for love or money, and 500 guineas is merely a 

 nominal fee. This struck me very forcibly when, 

 by accident, the other day I came across the 

 sale of the stud of the late Mr. Zachariah 

 Simpson. Galopin is a son of Vedette, and, in 

 the sale I have mentioned, mares by Vedette, or 

 covered by him, were sold at something less than 

 cab prices. Miss Sellon, for instance, was a well- 

 bred mare, but with a foal at her foot by 

 Vedette, and again covered by that sire, the 

 price for the lot was only 11 guineas. A foal 

 by Vedette, out of Clio, fetched 7 guineas, and 

 another out of the very speedy Castanette went 

 for 6 guineas. At that period the only blood 



