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have done more foi Yorkshire. Racing, hunting, or 

 coaching, in fact nothing came amiss to his stock ; 

 and in the days when George Clark was in his glory 

 at Barnby Moor, the upholder of " the blue jacket 

 and white hat line " on the Great North Road, while 

 Scrooby patronized the black, he got an almost 

 fabulous price for two colts, by his son Akarius, out 

 of Highflyer Coach mares. Like all Lord Fitz- 

 william's horses in Scaife's day. Mulatto was very 

 badly broken. Clift used to say of him, and in fact 

 of every one of them, " Hcres a pretty brute ! I 

 never get on one but I've a chance of getting my neck 

 broke ; no mouth, no nothing ; Fve to make all!' Wel- 

 beck, on the contrary, was quite as remarkable for 

 the height to which it carried its breaking. The late 

 Duke of Portland used to say that a horse should not 

 go on to a race-course till it could face anything. 

 Hence, in order to complete their education, they 

 vv^ere marched over and over again past a drum and 

 fife band, with a flag, in the park, and so many screws 

 of powder were let off" on the corn bin, that at last 

 they would hardly put their heads out of the manger 

 for a pistol report. 



Mulatto will long be memorable as the Mulatto and lus 

 winner of that Doncaster Cup race, when Daughters. 

 Fleur-de-Lis, Memnon, Actseon, Longwaist, and Tar- 

 rare went down before the green banner of Went- 

 worth ; and his fame is still bright in the Stud-book 

 as the sire of Martha Lynn, the dam of Voltigeur, 

 and Morsel, the dam of The Cure. Old Martha, by 

 no means a handsome, was rather a deep than a broad 

 mare, with fine hips and hocks, and somewhat droop- 

 ing quarters, a muscular neck, and ribs well arched. 

 Morsel, who looked very little above fourteen and a- 

 half, was sold at a Mr. Thomlinson's sale in Cumber- 

 land as a two-year-old for fifty guineas by Mr. 

 Wetherell, the celebrated auctioneer, to himself. He 

 sent her to Physician, whose smart two-year-olds 



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