1 72 Silk and Scarlet. 



degree through Woodpecker to Buzzard, and through 

 Highflyer to Sir Peter. Highflyer was bred by Lord 

 BoHngbroke, who gradually became embarrassed, and 

 glad to fly to " The Corner" for a little succour ; and 

 Mr. Tattersall, whose red waistcoat and blue coat 

 have quite faded out of living recollection, must have 

 leant on that hooked ** lucky stick," (which was never 

 absent from his hand when he made a bargain,) at 

 Lichfield, on the day he saw him run for the King's 

 Plate, and decided to give two thousand five hundred 

 for him. " The stain of old Prunella," his daughter, 

 rose, as time rolled on, mto the dignity of a proverb, 

 and the Snap cross brought him early into note, with 

 his son Sir Peter, whom no money could part from 

 Knowsley. He was a rare weight carrier, and woii 

 the Derby in a year when O'Kelly was second for 

 both events with an P.clipse, a disappointment over 

 which the Highflyer division chuckled not a little. 

 His most daring elTort was to give Dash two stone 

 and a-haif over the Beacon, but he got pricked in shoe- 

 ing three days before the race, and had to be stopped 

 in his work. 



He stood at Knowsley while Pot-8-o's was at Eaton, 

 and his stock, like himself, were nearly all fine rich 

 browns. They had great constitutions, but required 

 such strong work for the post, that comparatively few 

 were brought there. Sir Solomon was one of the 

 stoutest of them, and with John Shepherd to measure 

 for him, won against Cockfighter the best four-mile 

 race that was ever run over Doncaster. The pace told 

 its tale as the four-year-old Chance disposed of the 

 two in succession, at the same distance, on the Friday 

 of the same week. Sir Peter's daughters generally 

 bred well, and the cross between one of them and her 

 sire, resulted in an excellent Yorkshire whip's horse. 

 Storey, his old groom, was quite a character ; and a 

 legend still lingers at Knowsley, that when he was 

 told that the Prince of Wales had come to the 



