i^b Silk and Scarlet. 



showed a good deal of temper. Sir Peter Teazle was 

 out of one of them, and they received honourable 

 mention in the epitaph which the wits of the coffee- 

 houses wrote upon their sire, who was by Snip and 

 never beaten. It ran thus — 



** Died at his seat at West Wratting, Cambridgeshire, aged 27 years, 

 Cuthbert Snap, Esq., who has left a numerous progeny ; he had many 

 favourite daughters, among whom was AngeUca, married early to Tartar 

 Herod, Esq., by whom she had Charles Evergreen, Esq." 



TheTrumpator Trumpator was the produce of Con- 

 li^^' ductor and a mare by the speedy Squirrel, 



who is said to have died in a fish-cart on the Western 

 Road. The aged bones of his grandson found a much 

 more glorious resting place at the end of the Clermont 

 Course, and Paynator, Sorcerer, and Penelope kept 

 up the honour of their hne. The former was a fifteen- 

 two horse, very like his sire, but hardly so lengthy ; 

 and his stock had remarkably good legs and neat 

 muscular heads. Dr. Syntax, who was out of a Bening- 

 boro' mare, had both these attributes in the highest 

 degree, and those who remembered Match'em were 

 always struck with the likeness between the two. 

 " Doctor," as they fondly termed him in the North, 

 was a remarkable horse to look at ; scarcely fifteen 

 Doctor Syntax, ^^^^s, very broad at the base of the 

 nose, with open nostrils, an eye as full 

 and bright as a hawk's, a high, drooping rump, and on 

 the side view rather short-quartered. He was quite a 

 mouse in his colour, and remarkably short in his coat, 

 on which a slight canter would bring out all the veins, 

 so that he seemed covered with net-work, as if by 

 magic. His smallness as a yearling determined Mr. 

 Riddell to have him cut as a hack for his son, and 

 Mr. Crowther, the then great northern veterinary 

 surgeon, was sent for. He was actually cast for the 

 purpose, but luckily the day came out so hot that it 

 was decided not to operate. Just then John Lonsdale 

 the trainer, looked in, and took such a fancy to the 



