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had, however, seen the report of Newmarket as well, 

 and a three thousand offer fell dead on their ears. 

 Neither money nor labour stopped him if he set his 

 mind upon a thing ; and in his heyday he would have 

 hacks posted, and ride to his trainer, Sykes's, at 

 Malton, twenty-five miles before breakfast, to see his 

 lot gallop. Such was his love for them that if he had 

 been two or three months from home, he would take 

 a lantern the moment he got out of his carriage, and 

 not rest till he had been all round among " the old 

 blood." 



But we must bid it a long good-night, ^^^ eiackiocks. 

 and hie back to the four perpetuators of 

 the Blacklock tribe — Buzzard, Brutandorf, Voltaire, 

 and Velocipede. No blood in the stud-book is better- 

 winded or runs better when full of flesh, which shows 

 that the internal conformation is good, and ought to 

 be perpetuated. Their aptitude for a distance displays 

 itself in a muscular neck, without which few horses 

 ever yet stayed ; and they have also great depth 

 from the withers to the shoulder-points, and an 

 immense roundness of rib in making the curve from 

 the spine. 



Voltigeur and Fandango have all these voiti^eur 

 grand characteristics ; and it is not im- 

 probable that if the former had always been allowed 

 to run some stones heavier, he would never, in his 

 earlier days at least, have been beaten. Robert Hill's 

 notion always was, that when Voltigeur's neck was 

 reduced, he would be fittest to run ; but the horse 

 being of an iron constitution, he could not accomplish 

 his object (even by the aid of two hoods all summer, 

 and Radulphus, Castanette, and St. Ann perpetually 

 at him) for a season and a-half ; and he lived long 

 enough to see the neck and strength of his pet leave 

 him together, and neither Atkinson nor John Scott 

 :ould put flesh on him again. 



His sire Voltaire, for whom the Duke of Cleveland 



