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owner, and he may be said to have been the original 

 Jenner who inoculated the dwellers in Fatherland with 

 such a yearning for our thorough-breds. One of these 

 continental Bentincks is a great iron-master — so great, 

 in fact, that when he intimated to his Government, 

 during the troubles of 1848, that he intended to close 

 his works, they replied that if he did not carry them 

 on they must, or the revolution would sv/eep works 

 and Government away together like an avalanche. 

 Among the most constant attendants at our race- 

 courses, season after season, was a magnificent twenty- 

 stone German, connected, we believe, with the leather 

 trade at Berlin, and, without exception, one of the very 

 finest judges of racing that ever set foot on Newmarket 

 Heath. 



Foreigners are not very particular as to the colours 

 of the sires, but are rather prejudiced against chest- 

 nuts, especially if they have much white about them, 

 although Count Henckel did not let this stand in his 

 way when he took a fancy to Ephesus. Dark bay 

 mares suit them, but they prefer black-brown if they 

 can be got. At onetime the Russians had an immense 

 fancy for greys ; but they ceased to import them, in 

 consequence of the complaint of Hetman Platoff, that 

 his officers, who always rode them, were much more 

 liable thereby to be picked off. France has imported 

 a considerable number of sires since Diamond, the great 

 match opponent of Hambletonian ; and Lottery, Tar- 

 rare, The Emperor, Inheritor, Brocardo, Auckland, 

 Assault, Nunnykirk, Gladiator, Prime Warden, Sting, 

 Physician, Collingwood, Cossack, Elthiron, Foig-a- 

 Ballagh, lago, Minotaur, Weathergage, Saucebox, 

 and Lanercost, are well-known names in her stud- 

 book. In addition to those we shall mention in their 

 place, and countless others of lesser note, Cetus, 

 Chateau Margaux, Margrave, Glencoe, Riddlesworth, 

 Scythian, and Buzzard are naturalized in America ; 

 Hungary claims Conyngham, Frantic, and Recovery ; 



