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won by matches, sometimes for very considerable 

 * figures.' 



Match'em (sire of the first winner of the 

 St. Leger proper), whose stud-fee varied from 

 5 guineas to 50 guineas, sired, during twenty- 

 three years of stud-Hfe (from 1758 to 1781, when 

 he died, aged thirty-three), according to the calcu- 

 lators, 354 winners (several, no doubt, being 

 repeated in the calculations) of about .;!^i5i,097, 

 exclusive of divers ' Cups ' and ' Subscriptions ' 

 (including the Jockey Club Challenge Cup twice 

 with Pumpkin and Circe), whereof the value could 

 not be ascertained. And it is stated that ' Mr. 

 Fenwick cleared by Match'em, as a stallion, 

 upwards of ^17,000, which was about ^16,000 

 more than Mr. Martindale .... gained by the 

 celebrated Regulus.' In our day Mr. Chaplin is 

 supposed to have cleared about ^200,000 by 

 Hermit. 



Herod, alms King Herod (sire of the first 

 winner of the Oaks), whose stud-fee varied from 

 10 guineas to 25^ guineas, sired, during thirteen 

 years of stud-life (from 1767 to 1780, when he 

 died, aged twenty-two) 497 winners of ;i^20i,505, 

 exclusive of forty-four hogsheads of claret, the 



