222 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



during seventeen years of stud-life (1783 to 1800, 

 when he died, aged twenty-seven, having been 

 racing from three to ten years of age), some 172 

 winners of about ^^6 1,971, exclusive of two Jockey 

 Club Plates (called also Purses), the Newmarket 

 Challenge Whip, the Ladies' Purse at York, and 

 the Silver Whip at Carlisle (won by Sir H. Vane- 

 Tempest's Lord Mushroom, by Pot-8-os, in 1797). 



Highflyer (the most illustrious, if not the best, 

 son of King Herod, a/zas Herod), whose stud-fee 

 varied from 15 guineas to 50 guineas, sired, during 

 thirteen years of stud-life (from 1 780 to 1 793, 

 when he died, aged nineteen, having begun to 

 race at three years of age, and never started after 

 he was five), some 470 winners (repetitions, no 

 doubt, to be allowed for) of about ^170,407, 

 exclusive of Jockey Club Plates, Silver Bowls 

 and Cups (but neither the Jockey Club Challenge 

 Cup nor the Newmarket Challenge Whip), and 

 matches both in England and at the Curragh. 

 He was worth a fortune and Highflyer Hall, near 

 Ely, to his owner, Mr. Tattersall. 



Sir Peter Teazle (the most illustrious, if not 

 the best, son of Highflyer), commonly called Sir 

 Peter, whose stud-fee varied from loj guineas to 



