2i6 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



south, from the Podes or the Antipodes, a giant 

 of a horse, such as the wonderful Gladiateur, to 

 sweep our race-courses of all the principal prizes ? 

 But we can always lay this flattering unction to 

 our souls, we can always apply this relief to our 

 overwrung withers : it is, to all intents and pur- 

 poses, an English horse that has done these great 

 things- — we English made the breed from which 

 he sprang. 



Although her Majesty's reign has witnessed 

 such a wholesale exportation and disposal of our 

 best blood-stock, we did not part with all that was 

 best. Of the horses that have been famous in 

 this reign, we retained — at any rate until old age 

 — among winners of the Derby, Cotherstone, Or- 

 lando, Surplice, Voltigeur, Wild Dayrell, Beads- 

 man, Thormanby, Macaroni, Blair Athol, Lord 

 Lyon, Hermit (said to have cost only i,ooo 

 guineas as a yearling, and to have been a 'gold- 

 mine ' to his owner). Pretender, Kingcraft (till he 

 died at sea on his way to America in 1886), 

 Favonius, Cremorne, Doncaster (long enough to 

 beget Bend Or), George Frederick (sold for 65 

 guineas at poor Mr. Hume Webster's death on 

 the compulsory sale of the Marden stud, and then 



