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by Mr. Guy Bethell for 3C0 guineas to go to 

 Canada, at twenty-two years of age), Galopin 

 (sire of St. Simon), Sir Bevys (sold at Mr. Hume 

 Webster's death for 500 guineas), and Bend Or 

 (sire of Ormonde). 



Among winners of the St. Leger, Charles XII., 

 Launcelot, Nutwith (at Lord Exeter's Burghley 

 Paddocks, Stamford), Sir Tatton Sykes (died in 

 i860), Newminster, Stockwell, Lord Clifden, 

 Petrarch, Robert the Devil, etc. ; and, among 

 winners of neither of these two ' classic ' races, 

 such predominant sires as Saunterer, Rataplan, 

 King Tom, Parmesan, Vedette (first called West 

 Hartlepool, and a winner of the Two Thousand), 

 Sterling, Isonomy (said to have cost but 360 

 guineas as a yearling), the speedy Springfield, 

 the ' Royal ' Marsyas, the very useful Speculum, 

 the eccentric Peter, the incomparable St. Simon, 

 and the unique Wisdom. 



Nor did we part with such mares as Crucifix 

 (died in 1857, the dam of Surplice), Blue 

 Bonnet (died 1859, dam of the Claverhouse 

 that was to have won the Derby of 1852), Alice 

 Hawthorne (died about 1861, the dam of Thor- 

 manby), Queen Mary (not a performer of any 



