46 THE HORSE. 



eight yards) in seven minutes and thirty seconds. In 1772, a mile was 

 run by Firetail, in one minute and four seconds. 



In October 1741, at theCurragh meeting in Ireland, Mr, Wilde engaged 

 to ride one hundred and twenty-seven miles in nine hours. He performed 

 it in six hours and twenty-one minutes. He employed ten horses, and, 

 allowing for mounting and dismounting, and a moment for refreshment, he 

 rode for six hours at the rate of twenty miles an hour. 



Mr. Thornhill, in 1745, exceeded this, for he rode from Stilton to 

 London and back, and again to Stilton, being two hundred and thirteen 

 miles, in eleven hours and thirty-four minutes, which is, after allowing 

 the least possible time for changing horses, twenty miles an hour for 

 eleven hours, and on the turnpike road and uneven ground. 



Mr. Shaftoe, in 1762, with ten horses, and five of them ridden twice, 

 accomphshed fifty miles and a quarter, in one hour and forty-nine minutes. 

 In 1763, Mr. Shaftoe won a more extraordinary match. He was to 

 procure a person to ride one hundred miles a day, on any one horse each 

 day, for twenty-nine days together, and to have any number of horses not 

 exceeding twenty-nine. He accomplished it on fourteen horses; and on 

 one day he rode one 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 December 

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

 minutes and ten seconds. 



ECLIPSE. 

 Eclipse was got by Marsk, a grandson of Bartlett's Childers *. 



* The pedigree of Eclipse affords a singular illustration of the descent of our thorough 

 bred horses from pure Eastern blood. 



Bartlett's Childers. jl^^'-'^y^''^^^"- r r 



I Betty Leeds < Careless^ Shanker^ Barb Mare. 



Rquirt. ..^ , Snate ...r Lister Turk. 



Dam of I J Daughter /„,„,. J" D'Arccv "^niite urk, 



Caroline and Shock.<^ [ of Hautboy. | "»"tbov .| j^^^.^j ^^^^.^ 



Daughter f Tjn„.i.ov 



tof Hautboy. I "^""'"i- 



r Hutton's Bay Turk. 



Hutton-s Black Legs | ^^^^^^^^^ ^oneyskins . | Lister Turk. , 



\ Daughter of | Hautboy. 

 Daughter of^ C '■ 



f Clumsy •! Hautboy. 



t Daughter of •! Leeds Arabian. 

 Daughter of^ I ^ 



•diis i Lister Turk. 



Daughter of < 



Daughter of -j Hutton':. Grey Barb. 



C Godoljihin Arabian. 

 ] ( Bald 



<■ Daughter of{ _ _ ^ ^^^-^^ ( ■ 



Old Wilkes, by Hautboy. 



fRegxilus.., r Bald Gallowav 



^^"^"''^'^i Daughter off snake! Lister Turk 



. Mother AVcslem 



Smith's Son of Snake, 



Old Montague] Daughter of Hautboy. 



The pedigree of Eclipse Avill likewise afford us another curious illustration of the 

 uncertainty which attends thorough-bred horses. Marsk was sold at the sale of tlie Duke 

 of Cumberland's stud for a mere trifle, and was suffered to run almost wild on the New 

 Forest. He was afterwards purchased by the Earl of Abingdon, for one thousand guineas, 

 and before his death, covered for one himdred guineas. Squirt, when the property of 

 Sir Harry Harpur, was ordered to be shot, and while he was actually leading to the dog- 

 kennel, he was spared at the intercession of one of Sir Harry's grooms; and neither 

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



