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never was any certainty respecting the integrity of 

 his pedigree, although there may be this presumption 

 in its favour, that a stallion defective in blood is not 

 so probable to get a racer, as a mare in the similar pre- 

 dicament is to produce one. All that was known of 

 the pedigree of Partner's sire, Jigg, was, that he was 

 got by the Byerley Turk, his dam by old Spanker, 

 but whether that dam was a thorough bred daughter 

 of Spanker or not, is unknown ; had it been known, 

 little doubt but it would have been published. In 

 the mean time, this Jigg was, according to Pick, a 

 common country stallion in Lincolnshire, and his time 

 tallies with that of the large horse called, " the farmer's 

 horse," which according to old report, attended mar- 

 kets and covered at five shillings, until he got a 

 racer. The famous racer and stallion, Bloody But- 

 tocks had no pedigree. 



Nobody yet ever did, or ever could assert positively, 

 that Jigg was not thorough bred, but the case is very 

 different with respect to Sampson ; since nobody 

 in the sporting world, either of past or present days, 

 ever supposed him so. Nor was the said world at 

 all surprised at Robinson's people furnishing their 

 stallion with a good and true pedigree, a thing so 

 much to their advantage. A bolder stroke still, was 

 aimed by the publisher of the third volume of Pick's 

 Turf Register, in the flashy portrait prefixed, of that 

 grave and sober animal the Darley Arabian, obviously 

 worked up from that of Highflier. Having formerly 

 taken great pains to obtain a copy for publication, of 

 the only original portrait in existence of the Darley 

 Arabian, I noticed the above eyetrap, when it first 



