150 THE HORSE. 



Little Saint Martin's Lane, London ; lie was suc- 

 ceeded by Aldridge, father of Mr. Aldridge, who has 

 within the last two or three years, retired, parting 

 with the concern to the present proprietor, Mr. Mor- 

 ris. Tattersall's repository at Hyde Park Corner, 

 was opened about the year 1760, by Mr. Tattersall, 

 who had previously resided at Worcester, and was 

 proprietor of the stallion, Young Traveller; he was 

 also engaged awhile in London, with Beavor. After 

 the then Duke of Cumberland's decease, his stud was 

 sold at Tattersall's in 1765. Old Tat, as he was in due 

 time familiarly called, was so fortunate at his very 

 outset, as to obtain the countenance and patronage of 

 persons of the highest distinction, who took an in- 

 terest in horses ; and that important advantage has 

 continued undiminished, to his successors of the pre- 

 sent day. I first knew old Mr. Tattersall in 1773, he 

 was a shrewd, assiduous, and observant man, pre- 

 cisely one of those qualified by nature to be faber 

 fortume, the maker of his own fortune; and he 

 achieved it, becoming the founder of an opulent and 

 respectable house. One of the best proofs that he 

 gave of that never failing presence of mind in cases of 

 meum et tuum, vulgarly called a man's knowing what 

 he is about, was the mode in which he covered him- 

 self, by laying hold on Highflyer, at Newmarket. 

 The City Repository in Barbican, now the pro- 

 perty of Mr. Dixon, is, I apprehend, next in point of 

 chronoloov, to that of Tattersall ; but whether or not 

 it originated with the former proprietor, Langhorne, I 

 am uninformed. There have been generally, within 







