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turned to England in 1839, and was afterwards 

 ' taken on ' by the Americans ; the first and second 

 for the Derby of 1822 — to wit, the Duke of York's 

 Moses (son of Whalebone or Seymour) and Mr. 

 Farquharson's Figaro (bred by Lord Lowther, by 

 Haphazard), but the former died very soon after ; 

 General Grosvenor's (Mr. Ridsdale's) Glaucus, 

 favourite for the Derby of 1833; the notorious 

 'Jack' Mytton's (Mr. Beardsworth's) Halston (so 

 called after Mr. Mytton's own property, by the 

 Duke of York's Banker), winner of the Chester 

 Cup in 1829; Mr. C. Day's (Fulwar Craven's) 

 Helcnus, by Soothsayer ; Mr. Vansittart's (after- 

 wards Lord Uxbridge's, which ran in the name of 

 his trainer, Mr. John Kent, sen.) Rubini (son of 

 St. Patrick), winner of the Goodwood Cup in 1833, 

 though the English Stud Book says he was sent 

 to Sweden (perhaps in the first instance) ; Woful, 

 sire of Theodore, the historic winner of the St. 

 Leger in 1822 ; Mr. Meynell's Comrade (son of 

 Gulliver), imported by Count Gustav Batthyany 

 by the agency of the late Prince Batthyany in 1829 ; 

 Mr. Riddell's Galopade, by Dr. Syntax ; and the 

 Duke of York's (Mr. Sowerby's) Lionel Lincoln 

 (son of Whalebone), winner of several matches. 



