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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



old. In the Subscription Purse for four-year-olds, 8st. ylbs., four miles, Sir Mark 

 Sykes's Prime Minister by Sancho just beat Tramp, after a splendid struggle, in 

 8 min. 19 sec., amid the greatest excitement. Tramp was the sire of Si. Giles and 

 Dangerous (Derby, 1832 and 1833), of Barefoot (St. Leger, 1823), of Lottery, the 

 best of his year, a brown, foaled in 1826 from Mandane by PotSos, and the sire of 

 Sheet Anchor, through whom came Weatherbit. Lottery had a good deal of the 

 temper of Tramp's get, but was a very bloodlike horse ; Liverpool (another Tramp 

 colt out of a Whisker mare) was, on the contrary, light in the fore-legs, ragged in the 

 hips, and thick in his jowl, but he got Lanercost from Otis (by a son of Buzzard}, who 

 won the Cambridgeshire of 1839, against Hetman Plat off. His first year's produce 

 was Van Tromp (St. Leger, 1847), War Eagle, and Ellerdale. Then came Catherine 

 Hayes (Oaks, 1853), Loupgarou, Colsterdale, and others. 



Tramp's great-grandson, Weatherbit, was a brown foaled in 1842 from Miss 

 Letty by Priam, her dam by Orville. He was a good-looking horse, with a level 

 top, high quarters, and good hocks. He was the sire of Bel Demonio, of Bismarck, 

 and of Beadsman (from Mendicant by Touchstone), who, in turn, begot Blue Gown 

 (Derby, 1868) and Pero Gomez (St. Leger, 1869). 



This is indeed a fine (though incomplete) list of descendants from the splendid 

 animal who died in 1789, and was born in " the year of the great eclipse." It would 

 have consoled the mourners at his death had they been able to foresee it. In his 

 descendants Eclipse still lives, and to them, and their descendants in turn, no better 

 motto can be wished than was given to the founders of Old Rome : " Pugnent 

 ipsique nepotesque." May they have many a good race, and may we be there to see ! 



The Betting Post in 1789. 

 (The veteran on the cob is Col. O' Kelly, owner of "Eclipse.") 



