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described certain scenes with that bay Nana Sahib, at 

 their establishment, than which — 



*' Mat Lewis never borrowed 

 Any horrors half so horrid" 



— SO vividly, that Mr. Rarey was induced to beard 

 him in his den, at Greywell, and soon heard the jingle 

 of the guinea at the Round-house, for his pains. 

 TheV^oodpecker And SO, leaving Highflyer, we must 

 Line. essay to trace the second great branch 

 of the Herod genealogical tree, through Woodpecker. 

 He was himself a large coarse horse, with wide lop 

 ears, almost like a prize rabbit, which descended in a 

 marked way to his stock. Through him, Petworth 

 quite " out-Heroded Herod" in its breeding in-and-in. 

 A grey and a chestnut Skim were both by him, out of 

 a Herod mare ; and the former was the dam of Grey 

 Skim, by Gohanna, who was out of a Herod mare as 

 well. Then again Golumpus was by Gohanna, dam 

 by Woodpecker, till the stud-grooms were almost as 

 much puzzled, as dabblers in the Herd Book with the 

 seventy *' Duchesses." Woodpecker's greatest hit was 

 with Buzzard, who was out of a mare by Dux ; and 

 the blood of this great unknown was destined to flow 

 in the veins of the most wonderful leash of brothers 

 that ever sought glory in the Stud Book. 

 Castrei, Rubens. Their dam was a grand-daughter of 

 and Seiim. EcHpse through Alexander, but she was 

 such a mere weed to the eye, that the Duke of 

 Queensberry could not get five-and-twenty pounds for 

 her, and therefore he did not think that he had done 

 any very munificent act, when he gave her away to 

 his Newmarket surgeon. Her success at Buzzard's 

 paddocks seems almost fabulous, as her filly. Bronze, 

 who was also by him, won the Oaks. Castrei, the 

 eldest of the three brothers, was a magnificent chestnut 

 of sixteen hands high, and with great quality ; and 

 but for his roaring, there were few better on the Turf. 



