274 MODERN FAERIER. 



Yorkshire. The Doctor was got by Paynator, dara 

 by Beningbrough, and grandam by Carbuncle. He 

 has won no less than twenty cups, besides large 

 sums in cash. 



The following is a statement of the number of 

 winners and the prizes won by the stock of many 

 of the present fashionable blood-horses : — 



By Waxy (son of Pot-80's), aged 30, 167 winners, 

 won £64,454, 15*. and nine cups. 



Sorceror (son of Trumpator), aged 24, 162 win- 

 ners, won £74,769, 14* lOd. and five cups. 



Haphazard (son of Sir Peter Teazle,) aged 23, 56 

 winners, won £15,964, 14*. and fifteen cups. 



Popinjay (son of Buzzard,) aged 23, 20 winners, 

 won £9! 63, 11*. 



Walton (son of Sir Peter Teazle), aged 21, 91 

 winners, won £45,526, 16*. and thirteen cups. 



Orville (son of Beningbrough), aged 21, 109 win- 

 ners, won £40,773, 14*. and fourteen cups. 



Selim (son of Buzzard), aged 18, 83 winners, won 

 £28,606, 7*. 6(/. and three cups. 



Grosvenor (son of Trumpator), aged 18, 13 win- 

 ners, won £7956, 15*. and three cups. 



Hedley (son of Gohanna), aged 17, 16 winners, 

 w^on £3941, 2*. 6d. and two cups. 



A singular instance of the courage of a race-horse 

 occurred during the race for the member's plate, at 

 Salisbury, August 17, 1814. Mr. Radclifte's Spe- 

 culator, shortly after starting, broke down ; not- 

 withstanding which, although he had nearly two 

 miles to run, and gave the filly Amanda forty 

 pounds, after a severe struggle he ran a dead heat 

 with her. 



In December, 1815, Lord Carmarthen, son of the 

 Duke of Leeds, whilst hunting with his father's 

 hounds in the neighbourhood of Hornby Castle, 

 Yorkshire, leapt a brook which was bank full ; and 

 on being measured the next day from hind-foot to 

 fore-foot, it was twenty-six feet nine inches. His 



