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fair number of well-bred horses (to say nothing 

 of mares, notably Fay, second for the Oaks to 

 Corinne in 18 18). 



They included Mr. Richard Watt's (Mr. 

 Clifton's) Brutandorf (son of Blacklock), winner 

 of the Chester Cup in 1826, Mr. Payne's 

 (uncle of the famous George Payne) Plumper 

 (bred at the Royal Stud, Hampton Court, by 

 Election), and Sir J. Shelley's Phantom (son of 

 Walton), winner of the Derby in 181 1 and sire 

 of two successive winners of the Derby (Cedric 

 in 1824 and chestnut Middleton in 1825), though 

 Germany had but a short enjoyment of him. 

 Moreover, about the first among the foreigners to 

 compete upon our race-courses after ' the French 

 Revolution and the subsequent wars ' (including, 

 of course, the battle of Waterloo) was that Count 

 Batthyany who won a sweepstakes at Newmarket 

 Houghton with Wilhelmina (daugliter of Nicolo, 

 the unique twin) in 1829, and, after a career of 

 fifty-three years on the English turf, died, as Prince 

 Batthyany, suddenly at Newmarket on the Two 

 Thousand day, 1883, having once (in 1875) 

 accomplished the wish of his heart and won the 

 Derby with Galopin (Mr. Taylor Sharpe's), one 



