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wards called YOUNG CHILDERS, and finally BARTLET'S CHILDERS, was full 

 brother to FLYING CHILDERS. He was never trained, but proved a superior 

 stallion even to his brother ; and the high character in that respect which we have 

 awarded to the elder brother, we intend as divisible between the two. The 

 HAMPTON COURT CHILDERS, sire of Blacklegs, was son of the Devonshire 

 Childers. There were in all, six nearly contemporary racers and stallions of the 

 name of Childers. 



KING HEROD, a bay horse about fifteen hands three inches high, of great 

 substance, length and power, and fine figure, was bred by old Duke William, and 

 foaled in 178. He was got by Tartar out of Cypron. There was another Tartar 

 got by Blaze, but Tartar the sire of King Herod, was got by Croft's Partner, one 

 of our most famous Racers and Stallions, out of Meliora by Fox, and she was 

 bred from a line of stout and true runners. Partner, grandsire of King Herod, 

 was foaled in 1718; he was a chesnut horse, of great power, exquisite symmetry 

 and beauty, and immediately succeeded Flying Childers, as the best horse at 

 Newmarket, giving weight to, and beating 1 those of the highest repute, over the course. 

 He was got by Jig, son of the famous Byerley Turk, his pedigree through a list of 

 highly reputed progenitors, concluding with the well know Old Vintner Mare. 

 Partner died in 1747, aged twenty-nine. Cypron, King Herod's dam, was got 

 by that powerful and capital Racer and Sttdlion Blaze, a son of Flying Childers, 

 and sire of Sampson, Scrub and others ; that Blaze, of which the Yorkshiremen 

 affirmed, that even half-bred mares would breed racers by him out of Sir 

 William St. Quintin's Selima, a black mare and true runner, got by the Bethell 

 Arabian, and boasting 1 in her lineage, Champion, the Darley Arabian, and Old 

 Merlin. King Herod's pedigree consists of the oldest and purest blood, and in 

 order to obtain a capital racer, a real KILL-DEVIL, rara avis upon our modern sod, 

 chuse mares with the greatest possible portion of Herod blood, deep in the girth, 

 long and full in the fore arm and thigh, short in the leg, standing clear and even 

 upon the feet* wide and spreading in the hinder quarters send such mares to 

 SORCERER, THUNDERBOLT or SMOLENSKO and if we are not much out in 



our judgment, some of such Breeders, will have to say prob. est 



NOTA BENE If any Prince, Noble or Gentleman should successfully make the 

 experiment aforesaid, and should in consequence, send to the author, a Hogshead 

 of prime Oriental Madeira, the author's acceptance of the said Madeira, will be 

 found the least part of the difficulty. 



HEROD, like Childers and Eclipse, did not start upon the Course, until five 

 years old, whence probably, a certain argument takes something. He never ran 

 any where but at Newmarket, Ascot Heath, and York, and always over the course, 

 or four miles, stoutness or game, and ability to carry weight, being his play. He 

 ran five times for a thousand guineas each race, and won three of them. His 

 losing the two, might be on account of reasons which now and then occur upon 



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