THE SPORTING MAGAZINE; FOR DECEMBER, 1802. YOUNG PATRICIAN. a Repository with a visit. Dedicated to Charles Cockerell, Esq. who, con WE have been favoured w this jointly with Sir Charles Blunt, Bart. horse, sent from the East Indies; and with it came the following account, and which is the whole of the communication received concerning him. The drawing is from the pencil of J. J. Pichon, Esq. The engraving, which is very accurately executed, is by Mr. Chapman. Young Patrician, a colt four years old, bred at Pulta stud, by Sir C. W. Blunt, Bart. got by the wellknown Arab horse, Patrician, out of a country mare; and is now the property of the Most Noble the Marquis Wellesley. Calcutta, July 28, 1801. WITH the foregoing, we likewise received, from the same quarter two drawings, one the GroundPlan, and the other a Perspective Elevation, of Mr. Antoine De L'Etang's Repository in Calcutta, drawn by his friend J. J. Pichon, Esq. Under the Elevation is written View taken the 29th of July, 1801, when the Most Noble the Marquis Wellesley, K B Governo-General, &c. &c. honoured the projected and liberally encouraged and patronized the undertaking. These drawings are so much out of size for our purpose, that we had determined to return them without using; but on further consideration, shall adventure to have them engraved. Their novelty will please, and, we trust, give great satisfaction to our friends in India. ten or twelve miles to the spot His A REMARKABLE HARE HUNT. MOND killed by her weary pursuers, after a run of three hours almost without a check, and at a distance of nearly fifteen miles, exclusive of heads and doubles. She was much larger than common hares, and is supposed to be the same which for two years past bid defiance to the hunters, coursers, and poachers of the neighbourhood. COURSING. a party of gentlemen met in N Thursday, November 26th, Cheveley field near Newmarket, for the diversion of a day's Coursing. Near 30 brace of hares were coursed, six brace and a half of which were killed.-A hare was found by one of the party, and Mr. James Baddison's two bitches were pitched upon to course her; after good law being given, the bitches started, but had not ran far before a second hare got up; the bitches parted, and ran the hares singly, when, after a course of nearly two miles, each bitch kil ed her hare. From the fineness of a the day, and the situation of the pedestrians, who could see the coursing very distinctly, the whole was pleasing sight, not often to be equalled, as most of the hares ran for the side bill plantation. ONDAY the sixth June, hare was found by the harriers of Mr. William Beauchamp, of Chobham, and Mr. John Collyer, of Horsell, Surrey, near the seat of Sir Richard Onslow, Bart. in the parish of Chertsey. She went off in a style that seemed to bid defiance to her pursuers, taking over the common towards the seat of Sir William Abdy, Baronet, which she passed a little to the left, bending her course to the King's Beech Hill. Leaving the beeches on the right, she took the direction of Swinley Lodge, from thence over the Borough Hill, near Bracknall, which she passed on the left, and went through a gentleman's park, pointing to Warfield church; from thence to a gentleman's farm called Hawthorn Close, at which place she was a The day following, though a fog, produced good sport. A famous bitch, the property of Mr. John Smith, of Newmarket, ran five courses, and killed two brace of hares in a capital style. COURSING CARD. MR. HODGSON considers the DECISION given at the last Flixton Meeting, respecting the match run on FRIDAY the 12th ult. betwixt Major Topham's greyhound dog, Blacksmith, Blacksmith, and Mr. Hodgson's bitch, Duchess, which was given to the former by the Trier, and whom Mr. H. afterwards objected to, as wrong. The decision, Mr. Hodg son thinks, as he believes do many persons who were on the ground that day, ought to have been in favour of Duchess. Duchess is only five quarters old-not five years, as inserted in the papers. Stamford Bridge, Dec. 1, 1802. THE SNOWBALLS. COLONEL THORNTON's string of Snowballs has been challenged by several other gentlemen of late besides Mr. Durand; but this northern race of greyhounds, though bred and trained on the Flixton Wolds, are not deemed hardy enough at present to enter the fair lists of sporting with one of the southern counties! ARABIAN HORSES, &c. Royal Mares. King Charles the second sent abroad the master of the horse, to procure a number of foreign horses and mares for breeding, and the mares brought over by him, as also many of their produce, have since been called Royal Mares. Dodsworth, though foaled in England, was a natural Barb. His dam a Barb-mare, was imported in the time of Charles the second, and was cafled a royal mare. She was sold by the stud-master, after the King's death, for forty guineas, at 20 years old, when in foal, by the Helmsley Turk, with Vixen, dam of the old Child Mare. The Stradling, or Lister Turk, was brought into England by the Duke of Berwick from the siege of Buda, in the reign of James the second. He got Snake, the Duke of Kingston's Brisk, and Piping Peg; Coneyskins, the dam of Hip, and the grand-dam of the Bolton Sweepstakes. He Byerly Turk, was Captain Byerly's charger in Ireland, in King William's wars, 1649, &c. did not cover many bred mares, but was the sire of the Duke of Kingston's Sprite, Duke of Rutland's A Complete account of the most black Hearty,and Archer; the, Duke noted foreign horses, viz. Arabians, Turks, Barbs, &c. that have been imported into England, for the purpose of breeding racers, and from whom the best blood in the kingdom has descended. The Helmsley Turk, was an old Duke of Buckingham's, and got Bustler the Coffin Mare. Mr. Place of Dimsdale, stud-master to Oliver Cromwell, stole this mare out of the stud, and concealed her in a cellar, till the search for her was over. Place's White Turk, was the property of Mr. Place, stud-master to Oliver Cromwell, when Protector, and was the sire of Wormwood, Commoner, and the great-granddams of Windham, grey Ramsden, and Cartouch. of Devonshire's Basto; Lord Bristol's Grasshopper; Lord Godolphin's Byerly gelding, and Mr. Knightley's mare, Greyhound. The cover for this foal was in Barbary, after which his sire and dam was purchased, and brought into England, by Mr. Marshall. He was got by King William's white Barb Chillaby, out of Slugey, a natural Barb mare. Greyhound got the Duke of Wharton's Othello and Rake; he also got Panton's Whitelcot; Osmyn a very fleet horse; Lord Hallilax's Goliah, Sampson, and Favourite, all 12st. plate horses; Desdemona, and other good mares. D'Arcy White Turk, was the sire of O'Hautboy, grey Royal, Cannon, &c. D'Arcy |