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him off his legs. He accordingly got a tenant to allow 

 his mare to bring up the colt, and it grew so under 

 its new treatment, that Mr. Powlett wanted to call it 

 "Jack Faucet" after the farmer. To this the latter 

 objected on the ground that it ^^ was certain to win 

 fLeger^ a7id the?i tJieyll all be hooting and shooting 

 after me!' " Well, John," said Mr. Powlett, " a faucet's 

 nothing without a spigot," and Spigot was substituted 

 accordingly. 



Sorcerer, who was five years younger The Sorcerer 

 than Paynator, was the other founder of Family. 

 the Trumpator tribe. He was a black-brown, of 

 about sixteen-one, and not only inherited Squirrel's 

 turn of speed himself, but transmitted a fatal heritage 

 of unsoundness to his stock. His son, Smolensk©, 

 showed great breeding, but his Derby year was as 

 Clift said of Cedric's, "all wheelers and no leaders." 

 He was marked with a paint brush on the shoulder 

 for a heriot (as Tumbler and a bull — The Briar — were, 

 at Cobham, in 1858), and his case was cited by Lord 

 Cranworth in the Lords, as being one of unusual 

 hardship. Bourbon might have done much for Sor- 

 cerer, as the dams of Fleur-de-Lis and the Alderman 

 were the only mares that were sent to him in his only 

 season in England. Smolensko's son, Jerry, was a 

 black of remarkable size and substance, and inherited 

 a good deal of the Orvile coarseness, through his dam ; 

 but Jericho died not many seasons after his celebrated 

 Ascot "revival," and the other Jerries did not flourish 

 in Lord Glasgow's hands. 



Nutwith and Gameboy have had the principal 

 keeping of the Tomboy by Jerry honours, xombov 

 but as the former's fee kept him to all in- 

 tents and purposes hermetically sealed at Burghley, it 

 is difficult to say what he might have achieved. Con- 

 sidering his very limited sphere, he did well ; and 

 Knight of Kars bears the strongest marks of his line- 

 age. As he became inseparably connected with Lord 



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