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including The Colonel and Actzon and two 
imported Arabs, 3,556 guineas. 
Actuated by patriotic motives and un- 
willing that so fine a horse should go abroad, 
Mr. Richard Tattersall bought The Colonel 
for 1,600 guineas; a price which was then 
considered a very large one. The _ total 
realised by sale of the stud, including a 
couple of geldings, was 15,692 guineas. 
Thirteen years later, in 1850, the clear- 
sightedness of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, 
saw that the dispersal had been a mistake, 
and that year saw the foundation of a new 
stud which flourished until 1894, when it was 
sent to the hammer. Regarding this second 
dispersal, it was urged that the stud did not 
pay its expenses ; and although it produced 
The Earl, Springfield and La Fleéche, good 
judges, including the late General Peel, were 
of opinion that the ground, on which for so 
many years Thoroughbreds had been reared, 
was tainted and therefore needed rest. 
In 1840 the fifth Duke of Richmond 
brought in a bill to repeal those clauses of 
13 George II. which still remained on the 
Statute Book limiting the value of stakes, 
and this measure passed into law, not with- 
out opposition (3 and 4 Vic. 5). Some 
interesting evidence bearing on our subject 
