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and 93 yards in 6 minutes and 40 seconds ; and it is also asserted that he finished 

 the Beacon Course (then 4 miles i furlong and 138 yards) in 7 minutes and 30 

 seconds, and that he leaped 30 feet on level ground with his rider. His matches 

 were generally at four or six miles, and among the horses he either beat or compelled 

 to pay forfeit were the Duke of Bolton's .S/Wr.v//, Lord Droghecla's Chanter, the 

 Duke of Bridge water's Lonsdale Marc, Lord Milsington's Stripling and Lord 

 Godolphin's Bobsey. His own brother, Bart Id fs C/iildcrs, who was never raced at all, 

 was the sire of Synir/, Coughing Polly, Mr. Hartley's Little Man; Blank, Trimmer, 

 Shakespeare, and many other good horses. Flying Clrilders himself, who is also some- 

 times called after his owner, only covered a few of the Duke of Devonshire's mares. 

 and was sire of the 

 Hampton Court Childers, 

 Mouse, Blacklegs, Odsey, 

 P/aistou', Fleecem, Second, 

 and Blaze. He died in 

 His Grace's stud, in his 

 twenty -sixth year, in 

 1741. He stood at 50 

 guineas, then at 100 

 guineas, and in one 

 season at 200 guineas, 

 which shows how 

 quickly a good sire was 

 appreciated ; for in 1 752, Lord Onslow's " Victorious." 



, . . , . By ptrmiision of ll.R.H. Prince Christian. 



of the sixty thorough- 

 breds advertised (eight being reputed imported Arabs), the head of the list was 

 Oroonoko, whose fee was 20 guineas, and Bolton Starling asked only 8i guineas. 

 It is worth while comparing the figures for 1838 given in the Preface, and then 

 remembering what is charged for a fashionable sire to-day. 



Another famous horse, foaled in the year of Queen Anne's death, was Fox, who 

 was bred by Sir Ralph Ashton by Sir George Warburton's Clumsy (Old Hautboy, 

 Darcy White TttrkJ, out of Bay Peg, by the Leedes Arabian. He was first sold to 

 Mr. Lister, of Yorkshire, and was owned successively by the Duke of Rutland, Mr. 

 Cotton, of Sussex, and the Earl of Portmore, in whose stud he died at the age of 

 twenty-three, after begetting Conqueror, Goliah, Victorious, Meliora (dam of Tartar, 

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