HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



Betty, Mr. Bartlett's Childers (own brother to 

 Flying Childers, and never trained, but a very 

 king" among sires, as he was sire of Squirt, the 

 sire of Marsk, the sire of Eclipse), Mr. Panton's 

 invincible, indefatigable, and — as would now be 

 thought — cruelly murdered mare Molly (a daughter 

 of the Thoulouse Barb and a dam of ' suspected ' 

 blood), General Honywood's famous Old True 

 Blue and Young True Blue, the Duke of Bolton's 

 Bay Bolton (ex Brown Lusty), and other celebri- 

 ties Vv'hose memory will never die. 



To George I.'s reign, moreover, belongs mention 

 oi the Alcock Arabian (the property of Mr. Alcock, 

 a Yorkshireman), worthy to be commemorated as 

 a sire, because he is the only horse, besides the 

 Byerley, Darley, and Godolphin Eastern sires, to 

 which any winner of the Derby or any other of 

 the gre3,t ' classic ' races is to be traced back in 

 the male line. To him traces Aimwell (winner 

 of the Derby in 1785), by Marc Antony, by 

 Spectator, by Mr. Panton's Crab, by Mr. Alcock's 

 Arabian. 



George II., whose weeping assurance of ' Non, 

 non ; j'aurai des maitresses,' addressed to his 

 dying wife, when she advised him to marry again, 



