RACING AT '1 HE DAWN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



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head and face, which are quite reminiscent of Eclipse, and there are good pictures 

 of him at Cumberland Lodge and at the Durdans. Of Mambrino \ reproduce here 

 a highly finished painting by the same artist, from Eaton, evidently the original of the 

 engraving in my first volume. He was a grey like Gimcrack, bred in 1768 by Mr. 

 John Atkinson of Scholes, near Leeds, a grandson of Sampson, by Engineer, out of 

 the Cade mare, and was sold to Lord Grosvenor. He won the King's Plate at New- 

 market in 1775, and at the Second Spring Meeting he beat Trentham for the Jockey 

 Club Plate, B.C., after running a dead heat and starting again. In 1777 he was 

 matched against Shark (by Marsh) for the Whip, and in that year was advertised as a 



stallion in the 



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good company of 

 Sweetbriar, Gim- 

 crack, and Sweet 

 William, at Ox- 

 croft Farm, near 

 Balsham. He 

 was the sire of 

 Messenger, who 

 was imported 

 into the United 

 States, where he 

 founded a dis- 

 tinguished line of 

 trotting horses. 



Trentham is not "Mambrino." 



merely famous for the interest Charles James Fox had in him, for he was one of the 

 best horses of his clay, as is set forth in the eulogium beneath the print of him that 

 was done by G. D. Stubbs, after the picture by Stubbs, now in the possession of Lord 

 Cobham at Hagley Hall. " The terrible horse Trentham, late the property of Charles 

 Ogilvy, Esq. He won eleven times without loosing a match, he beat Bellario, Mcta- 

 physian and Young Eclipse, and many more of the most capital Horses in England, he 

 is only 5 years old, and was sold to Patrick Blake, Esq., for fifteen hundred and 

 seventy-five pounds. Trentham was got by the famous horse Sweepstakes who covers 

 at Moor Park in Hertfordshire, at 20 guineas a mare and 5 shgs. the groom, published 

 in 1772, by Rob. Sayer, 53, Fleet Street." This fine bay, the first son of Miss 



