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Alarm, but she rancorously persisted in breeding him 

 five colts in succession. 



Gladiator would have criven Bay Mid- ^, ,. , 



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dleton more to do for the Derby, if he 

 had not sprung a curb at the Spread Eagle at Snares- 

 brook, a month before, in days too when the solvent 

 touch of iodine was not thought of in such emergen- 

 cies. Mundig had been similarly afflicted there before 

 his Derby, and a few weeks previous to that he had 

 been borne up in his stall, ** dead weak" from inflam- 

 mation. When Gladiator had been in work again, he 

 was tried with Ebberston at nine pounds, and knocked 

 him as completely out of time by six lengths, as he 

 did in the race itself, where he was almost stopped 

 after running a few yards, as Bill Scott did not believe 

 that it could be a start. 



Sweetmeat was far away Gladiator's e 



, 111 111 Sweetmeat. 



best son ; and although he bore no traces 

 of it, except in requiring a great amount of work, in 

 which poor Tasker (who was the first to get on his 

 back) invariably rode him, he was full of Blacklock 

 blood. Major Yarborough always maintained that his 

 dam was as truly by Voltaire as his grandam was by 

 Blacklock, seeing that she broke to Starch before she 

 went to Voltaire, and came to the latter's stint to a 

 day. War Eagle's double connexion with the blood 

 was much more singular, as his dam was by Voltaire, 

 and his great grandam was Voltaire's own dam. 

 After Sweetmeat's fore-leg gave way, Mr. Cookson 

 purcha3ed him for three hundred, and sold him for 

 eight hundred guineas. He was a taking horse, with 

 no very great length or bone, a clever straight head 

 and neck, and rather heavy in the shoulders, a fault 

 which may have communicated that tight shoulder 

 action to so many of his stock. In Comfit, the sweet- 

 est filly we ever saw by him, it was painfully percep- 

 tible, and the same fault runs through many of the 

 Anaandales. He went blind soon after he came to 



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