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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



engaged in breeding horses for the English Turf, and in laying the foundation of 

 all our modern racing stock. Breeders were also supplying foreign markets and 

 sending the blood of the English thoroughbred to every racecourse in the world. 

 This is a subject I can no more than hint at here, but by the kindness of H.R. H. 

 Prince Christian I am enabled to give some extracts from the stud-book of his 

 father, the Duke Christian August of Schleswig-Holstein, and some portraits of its 

 most famous animals from the pencil of Albrecht Adam, grandfather of the well- 

 known modern artist. In many cases these drawings are so much superior to any 



The Duke of Schlesivig-Holsteirfs "Phantom" mare. 



representations of contemporary animals on the English Turf, that they should prove 

 of great value for purposes of comparison. Of the stallions kept at the Stud Earm at 

 Augustenborg I reproduce (i) Moses by Whalebone out of the Gohanna mare, foaled 

 in 1819, and bought from the Duke of York, a bay who won the Derby, the Albany 

 Stakes at Ascot, and the Claret Stakes of Newmarket ; (2) Logic (1820) by Selim, out of 

 Piquet, by Sorcerer, her dam, Prunella, bought from the Duke of Grafton. Of the 

 mares, I have chosen (i) a Phantom mare, bought from Sir John Shelley, foaled in 

 1822, by Phantom, out of Mansfield's clam by Sorcerer ; (2) La Danseuse, by Blacklock, 



