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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



The names of his horses occur in nearly every important meeting during the reign 

 of Charles II., and much will be forgiven him for appreciating the value of his father- 

 in-law's stud, which contained not only Fairfax 's Morocco Barb, but also the Helmsley 

 Tiirk> who got Vixen (dam of the Old Child Mare), out of Dodswortti s Dam, just 



J'/iili/>, Lord li'/iarlon. 

 By Van Dyck. 



after she had been sold (at the age of twenty) by Charles II. to Mr. Child. This 

 same Helmsley Turk was the sire of Old Bustler (who got J1ltrnderbnss, Old Merlin, 

 and the Darcy Woodcock), of Diamond (Darcy), and of the Hulton Royal Colt, besides 

 doing a great deal of unrecorded good. 



