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at the report ; and ere his old favourite was tumbled 

 into his grave, curiosity determined him, to probe his 

 malady to the source. Taking out his gully, he ripped 

 open his chest, and nearly half-a-dozen pailfuls of 

 yellow fluid, between water and oil, Cb^me away. And 

 so the great chestnut champion, father of Queen of 

 Trumps, and grandfather of Canezou, died at last, in 

 his twenty-sixth year. 

 The Sons of The stud fame of Pot-8-o's, a chestnut 



Pot-8-o"s. son of Eclipse, was by no means doubt- 

 ful or chequered, and began in 1793, with Waxy, 

 who was out of Maria by Herod. The story went 

 that it was originally intended to call his sire "Po- 

 tatoes," and the idea struck one of the lads as so 

 ludicrous, when Lord Abingdon first told his trainer 

 of it, in the stable, that he burst out a laughing. His 

 lordship good humouredly took up a piece of chalk, 

 and said, " I'll give you a crown, my boy, if you can 

 spell the word on the corn-bin." He wrote the 

 '^ Pot-Z-ds'' accordingly, and although some stuck to 

 the Pot-00000000, the lad's version was latterly 

 adopted. Waxy, the idol of his trainer Robson's 

 heart, was a very beautiful, one-eyed, lengthy style of 

 horse, with a great deal of the Arab in his look. His 

 quality was superb, and with him, so to speak, it came 

 in the highest degree into English blood stock. He 

 in his turn was put to Penelope by Trumpator, out of 

 Prunella by Highflyer, and this union of the Darley, 

 Byerley, and Godolphin strains was crowned by the 

 births of Whalebone and Whisker at the Duke of 

 Grafton's paddocks, at Euston, in the days when his 

 brother, Lord Henry Fitzroy, was in command, in 

 1809-18. Waxy's stock won the Derby four times, 

 thrice for the Duke of Grafton, and the Oaks three 

 times ; and with Whisker and Minuet, His Grace 

 fairly swept the Epsom board. 



Whiske ^"^ those days the Northern and 



Southern breeds were kept very dis- 



