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horses that we remember to have run with marked 

 success. The turf *' ponies," from Milksop, Ancaster 

 Starling, Highlander, and Gimcrack, (who was never 

 beat but once, and then by Bay Malton) down 

 to Midas and Mickey Free, have averaged fourteen- 

 two, and yet no horses have been more fortunate 

 at all distances from a mile to four miles, and at all 

 weights from 8st. /lb. to I2st. Still, if the pace be 

 strong and true from the start, horses have their dis- 

 tance measured out almost to a yard, and no reduc- 

 tion of weight, or training, or advantage in size, can 

 get them beyond it. For power, combined with good 

 size and speed, we never met with a finer unicorn than 

 Stockwell, Longbow, and Lord George. " A ton,*' as 

 the touts used to remark, was their " game." There 

 has too seldom been a sweeter mare to the eye than 

 Beeswing ; and though Recovery was thought hand- 

 some enough to model from, and Pantaloon was the 

 beau ideal of hosts of Englishmen as well as foreigners, 

 we are inclined to think that there have been few 

 more beautiful horses than ^.ctaeon, Kingston, Fazzo- 

 letto, or Envoy, and none more truly proportioned 

 than little Rowton. Still for the type of what a really 

 serviceable racer ought to be, commend to us the low 

 and lengthy Fandango, with those great well-hooped 

 ribs knit into the most muscular of quarters, and that 

 stealing action close to the ground, and giving nothing 

 away. It is on the perpetuation of points like these, 

 and not on beauty, that our English horse fame 

 depends. 



It is a very remarkable fact, that although before 

 Touchstone's time, Pot-8-os, Dr. Syntax, Sorcerer, 

 Sultan, Sir Hercules, Catton, The Colonel, Taurus, 

 Bay Malton, and Filho da Puta, were all first foals, 

 such was the late Marquis of Westminster's prejudice 

 against them that he always gave them away, and 

 was only prevented from so acting in the case of the 

 weakly white-faced firstling of Banter by despair of 



