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and Lord Bolingbroke's Alfred (sire of the Rev. Mr. 

 Goodricke's Imperatrix), Mr. or Captain Robert 

 Shafto's Tandem (sire of Sir F. Standish's famous 

 Yellow Mare), Lord Grosvenor's Sweet William 

 (sire of Ceres), the Duke of Grafton's Plunder 

 (sire of Mr. Burlton's Stella), Mr. Vernon's Flo- 

 rizel (sire of Sir T. C. Bunbury's Diomed), Mr. 

 Thomas Meredith's and Lord Grosvenor's Sweet- 

 briar (sire of Lord Egremont's Assassin), the Duke 

 of Ancaster's and Lord Clermont's Marc Antony 

 (sire of Aimwell), Sir Charles Davers' and Mr. 

 Vernon's Woodpecker (sire of Buzzard), Mr. 

 Wastell's and Lord Clermont's Conductor (sire of 

 Trumpator), Mr. O' Kelly's King Fergus (sire of 

 Beningbrough and Hambletonian, and grandsire 

 of Orville), Lord Egremont's Gohanna, and a 

 score or two more of ' cracks,' including, of course, 

 all winners of the ' classic ' races (the Doncastcr 

 St. Leger, the Oaks, the Derby, the Two Thou- 

 sand, and the One Thousand) from their institu- 

 tion to the end of the season of 1 8 1 9, a list whereof 

 is easily accessible. 



For it was in this reign that all those great 

 races were established : the St. Leger, so called 

 after Colonel and General St. Leger, of Park 

 Hill, Doncaster, whence the Park Hill Stakes 



