SPANIEL 



SPANIEL. 



WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1831. 



One evening in the spring of the year 1828, a small but 

 merry party, sat around the dinner-table of that fine old 

 English gentleman, the late Lord Egremont. The bottle 

 was in active circulation, and the good old Peer in merry 

 glee ; — his friends around him, and his race-horses the theme. 

 ^' What will you do, my lord, with that young Whalebone 

 weed, in the farther paddock ?" quoth one of the guests. 

 "Sell him," was the reply. "The price?" "A hundred 

 and fifty." — "He is mine." That "weed" was Spaniel — 

 winner of the Derby ! 



Spaniel was bred to win, if stoutness and good lasting 

 qualities availed at all. His sire was Whalebone, — his dam 

 by Canopus — grandam by Young Woodpecker — out of Frac- 

 tious, by Mercury — Woodpecker — Everlasting by Eclipse — • 

 Elysena by Snap — Miss Belsea by Regulus — Bartlett's 

 Childers — Hony wood's Arabian — dam of the two True Blues. 

 Such pedigrees as this have made our racing stock what it 

 now is ; and had the subject of this memoir lived in the 

 days of Four mile Races, or of Three mile Heats, we should 

 have doubtless had a lengthy list of victories with which to 

 grace his name ; but short and speedy running did not suit 

 his book, nor enrich our's. 



Spaniel's debut was as a two-year-old, in the Newmarket 

 Second Spring Meeting, 1830, where he made his first ap- 

 pearance on the turf, on Thursday, May 13th, in a Sweep- 

 stakes of 25 sovs. each ; for colts, 8st. 51b. ; and fillies, 8st. 

 21b. — T.Y.C. (not quite three quarters of a mile). 



Mr Pettit'fi br. e. Znny, hy Morisco, out of Bupta ] 



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