84 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



Mr. Martindale, the owner of Regulus, had not 

 been a mere adventurer, though he was but a 

 saddler. 



After O'Kelly the precedence was taken for 

 awhile by Mr. Tattersall (ultimate owner of the 

 famous Highflyer, bred by Sir Charles Bun- 

 bury, and owned during the greater part of a 

 short but brilliant racing career by Lord Boling- 

 broke) ; and he, originally a wool-comber (like 

 Shakespeare's father), then a sort of stud-master to 

 the Duke of Kingston, and lastly an auctioneer, a 

 newspaper-proprietor, a breeder of race-horses, 

 and founder of the toast ' The hammer and High- 

 flyer,' though not belonging to ' the quality,' was 

 a nobleman in comparison with the adventurous 

 O'Kelly. However, it was on the suburban and 

 provincial race-courses principally that the new 

 style of race-horse owners prevailed as yet ; the 

 only ' common feller ' that we hnd among the 

 winners of the Derby up to 1820 is Mr. O'Kelly, 

 with Young Eclipse and with Sergeant, though 

 Mr. Tattersall, who himself seldom or never raced, 

 must be considered, as the owner of Highflyer, to 

 have had a finger in the pie which contained Mr. 

 Panton's Noble, the Duke of Bedford's noted 



