Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-11-09

| have been told by spectator that the
gruoms made themselves merry with the
idea that Mr.. Robinson had brought
coach horse to start for the plate. My
informant represented him as IA true
game horse and AS having great stride.
In one of the latest, and possibly the
last. contribution made by John Law
renee to the history of the English
horse, to be found in the Sporting Mag
azine of March IL. 1921, he admits that
he must have been misled in regard to
the breeding of lIautboy. the sire of
Bay Bolton; but he says, son the other
hand have various reasons to be con
WINGED that the account of SIMPSONS
defect of pedigree was authentic, not
withstanding that conveniently bestowed
upon him" In his history Lawrence
says:
Sampson. which was black horse.
was the strongest horse that ever raced
before or since his time, aud entitled to
pre-eminence if viewed as Hackney or
Il hunter.
Sampson was ljl hands in height.
and his admeasurement in the legs, as
]
! Rockingham, was rs follows:
| Dimensions OF the torclcg, from the
halr OF the hOot, to the middle
OF the let oclt Joint. 49,. ..... inches.
! From he ietlock Joint to the bend
OF the knee ....... .... .'......Il
From the bend OF the knee to the
cllOw :'. '''..'... -.'.'.-. 10
| Round his leg below the knee, mar
rOWpSt part ... ...... ......... 81. "
Round his NINA leg narrowcst part
In the Sporting Magazine of January,
lS2l is to be found portrait of Stubbs,
and "A notice of Mambrino. grandson of
Sampson and sire of the Messenger-im-
ported into the United States in the year
l7SS. His great-grindson on the sire's
side was the famous trotting sire RN :
dvk's lIambletonian; grandson, on
the dams side, of Jarv's BellfOunder, "A
Norfolk Hackney, recorded III the pages
of this volume. In this notice we read:
Mambrno belonged to IA peculiar class
or variety of the English race horse, aud
is thence the subject of tale which,
however known to some of the elders of
the turf, has been some time since by
gone, and is indeed unknown to many
who are quite au fat on immediate
sporting subjects. He was bred by John
Atkinson. Esq. of ScOles, near Leeds.
Yorkshire, and foaled in l7GS. Mann
brine was got by Engineer, son of
sampson, by Blaze. After the
deceaSe of Mr.. Atkinson he became the
property of the late Earl GrOsvenOr.
He was master of the highest weights
over the road or field, and was never
beaten upon the turf until the edge of
his speed was bunted by severe labor
,,T H..
beat all the best horses of his day at
their own play, going too fast for the
speedy. and running toe long for the
stout; and often with the highest odds
upon him. MambrinO shows "a
have been a horse of great substance.
and of "A fine and rather military figure,
plainly enough. we think, indicating
some cross of European blood and as Il
stallion more calculated TO get hacks,
hunters and coach horses, than race
horses. lie. however, got number OF
middling racers and some good brood
mares, but no runner of the first or even
the second class. He went in a remark
ably good trotting form, and we have
heard it averred that he could have
trOtted fourteen miles i'm one hour; ne
common qualification for racer. Lord
Grosvenor had many capital coach
horses from him, and this horse may be
said TO have been the father of the pres
ent highly-improved, blood-like breed OF
English coach horse.
The story told by Lawrence is ther
repeated. and a moral suggested. 1t is
certainly significant fact that the por
trait of this gray rse>drawn on stee
from the painting by Stubs, bears &
remarkable likeness, save as to color, tC
that of Bonds Norfolk Phenomena. en-
graved from painting by FOlkard, oI
Beccles, ana inserted in the Sporting
Magazine of December, lS34-(repro
duced in the Live Stock journal Alma
mack of lSSl). The "remarkable resem
blance' was noted at the time in tn,
Sporting Magazine.
This DEPRESSION is not without its
special interest, seeing that in the case
of Blaze, the sire both of Sampson and
of the original Shales, absolutely moth
ing is known respecting the breeding OF
the only two English horses whose
blood flowed in his veins.
returning 10 the examination or the
old records, the advertisements show
that Othello, otherwise Black and All
Black, son of Crab, which was by the
AlcOck Arabian and had also both
Arab and English blood in his dam,
served in Norfolk in the year 1857. Mr..
Crofts, the breeder, not only of OthellO,
! hut of many other GOOD horses heinU a
Norfolk squire, would certainly not be
without a voice, when it came to the
improvemt mt of the horse stock of the
Eastern district, while Newmarket in
fluences would be equal in the same di-
rection. Yellow Jack, son of Blaze,
and a mare whose sire was Partner,
Travelled Norfolk in the year 1856.
To be Continued.]