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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



Barb, or the Perfian ; and for fwiftnefs, they will yield 

 the palm to none. An ordinary Racer is known to go 

 at' the rate of a mile in lefs than two minutes; but there 

 have been inftances of much greater rapidity : The fa- 

 mous Horfe Childers has been known to move eighty- 

 two feet and an half in a fecorid, or nearly a mile in a 

 minute ; he has run round the courfe at Newmarket, 

 which is little lefs than four miles, in fix minutes and 

 forty feconds. 



repeatedly at Newmarket againft the beft Horfes of his time, and 

 was never beaten: He won, in different prizes, to the amount of 

 nearly 2,oool. ; and was afterwards referved as a ftallion. — The 

 fire of Childers was an Arabian, fent by a gentleman as a prefent to 

 his brother in England. 



Dorimant, a famous Horfe belonging to Lord Ofibry, won 

 prizes to the amazing amount of 13,363!. 



Eclipse was allowed to be the fleeteft Horfe that ever ran in 

 England fince the time of Childers. — After winning king's plates 

 and other prizes to a great amount, he covered, by fubfcription, 

 forty mares, at thirty guineas each ; betides thofe of his owner. 



Highflyer was accounted the beft Horfe of his time in Eng- 

 land. The fums he won and received amounted to near 9,000!. 

 though he never ftarted after five years old. He was never beaten, 

 nor never paid a forfeit. 



Match em, a Horfe belonging to the late W. Fen wick, Efq; 

 befides being a capital Racer, was particularly remarkable as a 

 ftallion ; and may be truly faid to have earned more money than 

 any other Horfe in the world. He was engaged, during nine 

 years of his life, to cover twenty-five mares, at fifty guineas 

 a mare ; and was uncommonly fuccefsful in the celebrity of his 

 progeny, having been fire to many of our moft famous running 

 Horfes. He was remarkable for being the quieteft ftallion that 

 ever was known ; to which, perhaps, may be attributed his great 

 age, being in his thirty-third year when he died. 



Shark won, befides a cup value xaogs, and eleven hogfheads 

 of claret, the amazing fum of i5,jo7gs, in plates, matches, and 

 forfeits. 



The moft extraordinary inftance of fieetnefs, in a trotting pace, 

 we remember to have feen recorded, was performed, on the 4th 

 of July, 1788, for a wager of thirty guineas, by a Horfe, the pro- 

 perty of a gentleman of Billiter-fquare, London. He trotted thirty 

 miles in an hour and twenty minutes, though he was allowed, by 

 the terms of the bet 2 an hour and an halfo 



