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with the Regulus blaze in her face. Being informed 

 many years since, that a man of the name of Tyndal, 

 living at Kingston, had formerly been in O 'Kelly's 

 service, and looked after and ridden Eclipse exercise, 

 I last year called upon him ; he was indeed in that 

 service, but did not look after, or ride Eclipse, but 

 Milksop, which stood in the same stable. He agreed 

 with me generally respecting Eclipse, remarking that 

 he was master of any weight. The Eclipse stock 

 in general resembled Shakespeare and his stock, in 

 colour, whiting, temper, and so generally indeed, as to 

 make a near consanguinity very obvious or probable ; 

 as to colour, it appeared so to me in viewing Pincher, 

 Diana, Falstaff, and others. There was beside, a 

 considerable likeness to Eclipse in Pincher, with re- 

 gard to temper and qualification, so far as that went. 

 The reader is referred to the History of the Horse, for 

 the portraits of Shakespeare and Eclipse confronted 

 in the same plate. As to pedigree and performance, 

 probably the palm must be conceded to Shakespeare, 

 assuredly for the latter. Both horses had the blood 

 of Bartlett's Childers in them, Shakespeare an addi- 

 tional dip, through Aleppo, of the Darley Arabian, 

 with two mares in his pedigree of the highest repute 

 in racing annals, his dam, being the little Hartley 

 mare, (dam also of Blank, and such. a number of 

 capital racers), grandam the famous Flying Whig. 

 I regret that I cannot assign to my greatest favourite 

 of his time, Marsk, the sireship of the renowned 

 Eclipse ; but the whole of this is a matter of the 

 most trifling consequence, about which to waste use- 

 fid ink and paper, in fact well merits that ridicule 



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