The Byerly Ticrk, i ^-i) 



paddock, he sturdily replied, " Then he may wait until 

 Fve done my dimiery The portrait of this Downright 

 Shipper! is preserved in the picture in the Knowsley 

 dining-room, which is now matched by Longbow and 

 his groom, from Mr. Harry Hall's hand, and a plain 

 flat stone near the boxes, with the simple words " Sir 

 Peter',' marks where his favourite lies. 



Four eminent sires kept up his charter, o- p ^ . ^^ 

 to wit, Sir Paul, Walton, Haphazard, and 

 Stamford. The two latter resulted from that cross 

 with Eclipse mares, which was then thought the acme 

 of paddock prowess ; but the compact little Stamford, 

 who had more quality and less heaviness than the 

 majority of the breed, only preserved the family 

 honours in tail female, and the dams of Mameluke, 

 Beiram, Actaeon, and Emilius were all by him. The 

 Haphazards were soon forgotten in spite of the fine 

 cross with Mrs. Barnet by Waxy, from which Filho da 

 Puta sprang ; but after him the blood grew jady with 

 Betsy Bedlam, who fretted and jumped about like a 

 crazy thing when she was out of the stable ; while 

 Colwick, who never really loved a distance, and was 

 bred very closely in through his Sir Oliver dam, got 

 nothing worth speaking of except Attila. In fact, but 

 for Sleight of Hand, whose mares have dotted the 

 Sledmere pastures with several chestnut winners, the 

 Haphazard blood, of which Gambler and Figaro were 

 good specimens, has virtually vanished. Poor Bill 

 Scott invariably coupled Attila with Magistrate, as 

 having tried them higher than anything they ever had 

 at Whitewall. Attila looked almost too pretty to be 

 very good, and when in condition as a sire, he was, 

 like Sultan, one of the most " mouldy" that painter 

 ever glanced at, and Bessy Bedlam was a beautiful 

 little brown mare, rather tucked up, but wonderful in 

 her two-year-old days, 



Filho da Puta went very wide behind, .,.„ , p, 

 and his blood is still to be found mingled 



