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for the first mile." In his first season, out of Julia (by Whiskey] he got Phantom, a 

 Derby winner, and a famous sire of mares, beside such good colts as the two Derby 

 winners Cedric and Middleton. But his best son was Partisan, a bay foaled in 1811 

 out of Parasol by PotSos, and one of the finest-actioned horses ever seen at New- 

 market, where he won several matches owing to the advantage of being tried with 

 Whisker &\. the Grafton Stables. After he had begotten Venison, Mameluke, Gladiator, 

 and Glaiicus, he was sold for 165 guineas. But his memory will live on in 

 his descendants long after his selling-price has been forgotten. 



Gladiator, a chestnut with a blood-like head and fine eyes, might have given Bay 

 Middleton more work for his Derby if he had not sprung a curb at Snaresbrook a 

 month before the race. He was out of Pauline by Moses (Derby, 1822), who is gener- 

 ally traced to Whalebone. Though he was the sire of Gladiateurs dam, it is on his 

 son Sweetmeat that his fame chiefly depends, a very neat dark brown out of Lolly pop who 

 was by Voltaire (more probably than by Starch, as is sometimes held), her dam 

 Belinda by Blacklock. Sweetmeat had a clever straight head and neck, with rather 

 heavy shoulders which he transmitted to his daughter Comfit. Venison, whose grand- 

 dam was Jerboa (by Gohanna, grandson of Eclipse), was a game little bay horse 

 with a white reach and both hind fetlocks white, who got all his stock small with 

 grey hairs in the coat and beautiful eyes. He lurched rather in his gait, but was a 

 fine stayer when well ridden, and beat Miindig (Derby, 1835) for the King's Plate at 

 Doncaster (four miles) in a canter. A fine picture of Sam Day on Venison, with the 

 whole family of Days around him, was painted by Abraham Cooper for the Royal 

 Academy of 1838, and now hangs in Cambridge House, Regent's Park. His 

 son Ugly Buck won the Two Thousand of 1844 and his daughter Clementina 

 got the One Thousand three years later. Out of Southdown (by Defence 

 a grandson of Waxy) he also got Joe Miller, Kingston, and Alarm (Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 1845), who had wonderful hips and plenty of his sire's staying 

 power, and Cruiser, who was tamed by Mr. Rarey and " was nightly lying down at 

 a word among the sawdust " while his stock were winning at Newmarket. 



The last son of Sir Peter whom I can mention as transmitting the best of the High- 

 flyer blood is Sir Paul out of Evelina (by Highflyer}. He was the sire of Cain 

 (1822) whose dam was by Paynator, and Cain was the sire of Ion who ran second 

 in Don John's St. Leger. The son of Ion and Ellen Middleton (by Bay Middleton} 

 was Wild Dayrell (Derby, 1855) the sire of Buccaneer, who begot the great Kisber, 

 and also had a famous daughter in Formosa. 



