HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



days of performance, Lord Ossory's Otho, Lord 

 Rockingham's Bay Malton, Lord Grosvenor's 

 Cardinal Puff, Mr. Fenwick's (Sir C. Bunbury's) 

 Dux and Le Sang, Sir J. Lister Kaye's famous 

 mare Perdita, Sir Thomas Gascoigne's famous 

 mare Tuberose, Lord Bolingbroke's Paymaster 

 (sire of Paragon), Messrs. Fox and Foley's Tren- 

 tham, Mr. Vernon's famous mare Coquette (by 

 Compton's Barb), Mr. Strode's (the Rev. Mr. 

 Hewgill's) famous mare Priestess (by Match 'em), 

 Lord Grosvenor's famous mare Maiden (Mr. 

 Pratt's, of Askrigg), Lord Ossory's Comus (sold 

 to Comte d'x^rtois), Messrs. Fox and Foley's 

 Pyrrhus (Mr. Vernon's, by Sprightly). Count 

 Lauraguais' and ever so many other persons' 

 famous little Gimcrack (that gave the name to the 

 Gimcrack Club, York, though he was a Southern 

 horse, bred in Hampshire), Lord Bolingbroke's 

 and Mr. Tattersall's Highflyer (that never was 

 beaten, never paid forfeit, and made the fortune 

 of the Tattersalls), Lord Grosvenor's and Lord 

 Abingdon's superlative Pot-8-os (sire of Waxy), as 

 well as Mr. Edward Crofts' Young Marsk (sire 

 of Mr. Bethell's Ruler), Mr. John St. Leger 

 Douglas's and Mr. Jenison Shafto's Goldfinder 

 (sire of Colonel Radcliffe's Serina), Mr. Wastell's 



