H. B. R.iCEIIOKSES. 



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exported to America, became the root of a many-branched pedigree of the best trotting-horses 

 of the United States. 



Mambrino is quoted as one of the examples of "strength with quality" which the author 

 of an anonymous work, published in 1836* and illustrated with a series of rudely-executed litho- 

 graphs, thought it the duty of the nation to cultivate. The weight of evidence would incline one 

 to believe that the race-horse, as exhibited in the winners of the great annual races, viz., the Derby, 

 the Oaks, and the St. Leger, was as perfect for all practical purposes in 1803 as at the present 

 day ; whether he was as fast for running purposes has long been a matter of dispute. 



Gimcrack, a dark iron-grey horse, who was less than 15 hands in height, was bred in 1760 

 by Mr. Gideon Elliott, of Murrell Green, in Hampshire, and was got by Cripple, his dam being 



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by Mr. Grisewood's Partner. Gimcrack during his racing career passed through many hands, 

 having been successively the property of his breeder, of Mr. Green, Mr. Wildman, Lord Boling- 

 broke, Count Lauraguais, Sir C. Bunbury, and Lord Grosvenor. Gimcrack started for the first 

 time at Epsom in 1764, and won seven races — all that he started for — during his first year. 

 From 1764 to 1770 inclusive he ran in a vast number of races, most of them in heats, and over 

 a distance of ground, and was beaten but ten times during his long and active career. He is the 

 only English race-horse after whom a still existing association is named, and the Gimcrack 

 Club at York, founded in 1766, attests his excellence and prowess. Gimcrack was always a 

 prodigious favourite with Admiral Rous, who constantly referred to him in his turf anecdotes 

 and public letters, and was very proud of the picture of the little grey, from an unknown brush, 

 which he acquired by purchase at an advanced period of his own life, and bequeathed upon his 

 death to the Jockey Club. Perhaps the most remarkable of Gimcrack's achievements was that 



* "A Comparative View of Ihe Form and Character of tlie Englisli liacer and Saddle-lrorse during tlie la:,t and present 

 CenUnies." 



