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he laid his legs to the ground. " Snap for speed and Matchem for truth and day- 

 light " was the paddock axiom, and Snap, who was born in 1750, was almost the only 

 sire of that age whose record ran Matchem 's close, for between 1763 and 1781 his aet 

 secured .92,200 in prizes, the most distinguished of his produce (as was mentioned 

 in his " epitaph ") being Goldftnder, Omnium, and many famous mares, such as 

 Angelica, Snapdragon, and the dams of Pantaloon, Shark, and Alfred. 



Matchem' s type was very closely reproduced in Dr. Syntax (first foal of a Bentng- 

 brough mare), that game little champion of the North, scarcely fifteen hands in height, 

 with a mouse-coloured coat so remarkably short that his veins stood out like network 

 after a slight canter. He was the sire of Beeswing, the pride of Northumberland, 

 scarcely 15-2, with the 

 sweetest head in the 

 world. It may be re- 

 marked that Dr. Syntax 

 raced till he was ten 

 years old (winning 32 

 races), and his famous 

 daughter raced till she 

 was nine, and was 

 hacked in the Park for 

 a year before being sent 

 to the stud. By l^otich- 

 stone, who also ran as an 

 old horse, she had the 

 beautiful Nunnykirk and 

 Ne-wminster , a pair 

 whose victories for cups over long distances were wonderful. Newminster got the 

 big and bloodlike Lord Clifdcn, whose most famous son, Hampton, went back to the 

 smaller strain, and begot Ladas, the most perfect in proportion of them all. 



The Conductor line of Matchem blood, famous for Trnmpator (sire of Paynator, 

 whose son was Dr. Syntax], Sorcerer, and Penelope, sprang from a union between 

 MatcJiem and a daughter of Snap, the grandson of Flying Childcrs. Through him 

 the blood of the Darley Arabian appears for the first time in the line. Sorcerers son 

 was Smolensko, sire of Jerry, whose son was Tomboy, and the small size of the strain 

 came out again in Tomboys grandson Saucebox, who was only 14-2. Sorcerers strain, 



H.R H. The Prince of Wales' s 

 " Anvil," by "Herod" (1777). 



