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and dams, though It was not until the very year 

 of the Sailor King's death that there was foaled 

 Cap-a-pie (by The Colonel, son of Whisker, dam 

 a Sultan mare), imported into New South Wales, 

 where he became the sire of the famous home- 

 bred N.S.W. Sir Hercules, sire of Yattendon, 

 sire of Chester, sire of Kirkham and Narellan, 

 with which pair of * Antipodeans ' the late Mr. 

 White so pluckily came to defy us on our own 

 dung-hill or dung-hills. 



As for legislative enactments, the turf may be 

 said to have had complete rest during the reign 

 of William IV., although there was a little altera- 

 tion made in parts of the statutes of Charles II. 

 and Anne for the purpose apparently of setting 

 learned judges and counsel a - nagging, which 

 purpose was of course fulfilled to admiration ; but 

 the ' parts affected ' had no more connection with 

 horse-racing than with other pursuits of a very 

 different character. 



The jockeys (besides those that have been 

 already mentioned) who, during the short reign 

 of William IV., became most worthy of remem- 

 brance (though some of them, of course, had been 

 riding for years, and some were only just coming 



