SECOND PERIOD : GEORGE III. 



tain young women (of Newmarket, or elsewhere) ; 

 and it was in the same reign that the new-born 

 or newly-organized United States of America, 

 with which country we had always maintained 

 horse-dealing, interrupted only by the Revolution 

 brought on by the obstinacy of ' Farmer George,' 

 began to buy our best thorough-breds more busily 

 than they had bought when they were loyal 

 British colonists. 



They took, among many others, Archduke 

 (by Sir Peter), winner of the Derby in 1789; 

 Arra Kooker (by Drone), second to Squirrel 

 for the Great Subscription at York in 1792 ; 

 the Prince of Wales's famous Baronet (by Ver- 

 tumnus), winner of the Oatlands Stakes at Ascot 

 in 1 79 1 (when a riotous scene took place, it 

 is said, causing the transfer of the race for the 

 future to Newmarket, and ^100,000 changed 

 hands) ; Brilliant (by the celebrated Phenomenon), 

 third for the St. Leger of 1794 ; Citizen (by 

 Pacolet), first sent to the West Indies, and then 

 imported by General Stephen Carney into North 

 Carolina or Virginia, in 1803 ; Sir John Lade's 

 Clifden (by Alfred), and the Duke of Bedford's 

 Dragon (by Woodpecker), runners of the cele- 



