THE HAMPTON COURT STUD. 
047 
Guineas. 
67 A chestnut filly, by Cain, out of Ada (sister to Augusta) by Woful, dam by 
Rubens, &c 30 
68 A chestnut filly, by Cain, out of Burden, by Camel, out of Maria, by Wa- 
terloo ; mare untried 33 
C9 A chestnut filly, by The Colonel, out of Miss O’Neil, by Camillus, out of 
Birmingham’s dam, &c 70 
70 A bay filly, by Camel, out of Xarita, by Moses, dam by Rubens, &c 40 
71 A chestnut filly, by The Colonel, out of La Danseuse, by Blacklock, &c... 51 
72 A chestnut filly, by Actason, out of the second Arabian mare (mare untried) 58 
73 A bay filly, by The Colonel, out of the third Arabian mare (mare untried) 76 
THE FOLLOWING WELL-KNOWN STALLIONS, &C. 
74 The Colonel, by Whisker, dam by Delpini, her dam, Tipple Cider, by 
King- Fergus — Sylvia, by Young Marske. He is a sure foal-getter, 
and the sire of Post-haste, Lieutenant, The Drummer, Heiress, Arsenic, 
Recruit, Skirmisher, Toothill, Cobham, D’Egville, &c. The stock of 
The Colonel won 37 times in 1836 1,550 
This horse was the chief attraction and glory of the day. The follow- 
ing is the animated description of the Reporter of the Times. “It was 
nearly half-past four when the sale of the young ones was concluded ; but 
for some minutes previously it was impossible to keep the attention of 
the company fixed upon the fillies offered for sale, owing to the im- 
patience everybody felt to see The Colonel, whose loud neighing pro- 
claimed to the field that he had left the stall in which he is usually 
kept. In front of the boxes in which the stallions are lodged is a wall 
from eight to nine feet in height; above the top of this wall the head 
and chest of The Colonel were ever and anon seen, as he was prancing 
and rearing under the care of his keeper. A notion had got abroad 
that The Colonel is a wild ungovernable horse, of very bad temper;, 
but nothing can be more erroneous. To his trainers he is mild and 
tractable, though unquestionably, if any one injures or offends him, he 
is in the habit of remembering and resenting it. As soon as it became 
known that his cloths were off, and that he was in the yard before his 
box, a rush was made to the gate from which he was to enter into the 
paddock, and the walls were crowned with individuals, whose eager- 
ness to see this gallant steed could no longer be repressed. A dense 
crowd was also pressing against the gate; but no sooner was the gate 
opened, than the rapidity with which the members of it retreated before 
The Colonel was perfectly astounding. At every step he formed the 
ground around him, and as he came in front of Mr. Tattersall’s 
rostrum, it was delightful to see the vast circle which he cleared for 
himself amid the admiring spectators. Nothing could be more mag- 
nificent than his appearance ; it was a wonderful combination of 
strength, and speed, and power; and every man present felt that it 
would be a loss to the country, if such a horse were allowed to leave 
it. He is, indeed, a perfect realization of Virgil’s picture of the 
charger: — 
‘ Stare loco nescit, mieat auribus, et tremit artus, 
Collectumque premens volvit sub naribus ignem. 
Densa juba, et dextro jactata recumbit in anno. 
At duplex agitur per lumbos spina: cavatque 
Tellurem, et solido graviter sonat ungula cornu.’ ” 
The first bidding was 1,050 guineas ; then 1,150; then 1,250; then, 
without a pause, 1,350; then, a slight pause, 1,450; then, after a 
minute’s time, Mr. Tattersall bade 1,550; and then, after another 
minute’s time had fully elapsed, the hammer fell, and lie became 
the auctioneer’s own property, and will continue to cover at Mr. 
Tattersall’s farm, at Dawley, near Uxbridge. 
The Colonel came out in 1827, when he won the Two Years Old 
Stakes of 20 sovs. each, (10 subs.) at Heigh Park, beating Kitty; 
a colt by Tramp, Au Mancruwe, and a black colt by Whisker. 
