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ries on the turf, in the ardor of his zeal and the 

 extent of his racing establishment. No pilgrim 

 ever knelt at the shrine of My Lady at Loretto, 

 nor ever dipt into the River Jordan, with greater 

 devotion than the colonel visited his stables in 

 the morning to admire the objects of his solici- 

 tude, which, by their condition and performances, 

 generally so well repaid his attention. The 

 epithet " delighting in horses," applied by Pindar 

 to Hiero, king of Syracuse, who, on his favorite 

 horse Phrenicus, was the winner of the Olympic 

 crown, could equally well have been applied to 

 Colonel Hampton, for no man was fonder of fine 

 horses than he. One would like to possess, 

 painted by Troye, the colonel's likeness on his 

 favorite " Monarch " ; what 



" A combination, and a form indeed," 



to hand down to posterity, 



" To give the world assurance of " 



an honorable sportsman and a high-mettled racer 

 of the nineteenth century. -.^. 



Colonel Hampton commenced his racing career 

 in the right way, with none but good ones, and, 

 in consequence, was from the first eminently 

 successful. One of his most brilliant campaigns 



