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class. But such is one of the phenomena of this 

 reign, during which a stray competitor from the 

 most unHkely regions has occasionally put in an 

 appearance. 



As long ago as 1S57, Baron Petroffski (who was 

 a walking Racing Calendar and Stud Book) had 

 run the brown colt Vision (by Signal and Vest, by 

 Henriade), 'bred in Russia/ unsuccessfully, how- 

 ever, at Newmarket Second October and Hough- 

 ton Meetings; and ' bred in Jamaica ' was Portland 

 (by the American horse Rodney and the Jamaica- 

 bred mare Wee Pet), a horse that was running 

 ' all over the shop ' at five and six years of age, in 

 1862 and 1863, and derived considerable celebrity 

 and lustre from having belonged, among his many 

 owners, to the ' Benicia Boy,' the famous pugilist, 

 J. C. Heenan, the antagonist of Tom Sayers and 

 Tom King, and the Hercules to the Omphale of 

 the fair Ada Isaacs Menken. ' Bred in Den- 

 mark ' and ' bred in Poland ' (whose king, when 

 she had one, tried to purchase the famous King 

 Herod for ^2,000 more than 100 years ago), 

 and ' bred in Roumania ' have been appended to 

 the names of horses that have been entered, if 

 not run, for our races, and Signor Ginestrelli, 



