CELEBRA TED RACEHORSES.



H. Lennox sent them both up for sale at Tattersall's, and Mr. Popham
bought them both back for 350 guineas. So, as Lord George Bentinck
parted too hastily with Surplice, and Colonel Peel with Kingston, in like
manner did Lord Lennox get rid of a Derby winner. Wild Dayrell was
found dead in his box on Sunday, the 27th of November, 1870; and he
left to Buccaneer and The Rake (whose paternity, however, was
questioned) the honour of perpetuating a strain of blood which, if not the
stoutest, was at any rate a valuable variety, which we could ill afford to
lose. Most of WVild Dayrell's stock could race; and several two year
olds at one time promised to make him a sire of very high fashion, but the
transition from two to three years old was fatal to this expectation.
Buccaneer unfortunately was transported to Hungary before his fame as a
sire could be tested; but this was sufficiently established before his son
Kisber (the Mineral Colt) won the Derby in 1876. The Rake, Wild Oats,
and some others have gone utterly to the bad. A mouse-brown colt, with
a handsome head and rather high on the legs, might safely be set down as
a Wild Dayrell, and several of his stock, notably Wild Charley, showed a
deal of quality. The Rake, however, was altogether quite of another
mould, and partook more of the character of the Birdcatcher family.


                  WILD DAYRELL'S PERFORMANCES.
                               I854-
  At Newmarket (First October), for two years old colts 8st 7lbs, fillies
8st Slbs (Marlow), won a sweep of  250, beating the Duke of Bedford's
ch. f. Para, by Paragon (son of Touchstone), who ran a dead-heat for
second place with Lord Exeter's b. c. Hazel, by Nutwith: only three ran;
won by two lengths.
                               1855.
  At Epsom (R. Sherwood), won the Derby, of  4775, beating Mr. H.
Hill's br. c. Kingstown by Tearaway (son of Voltaire), by two lengths
(A. Day), Mr. J. Merry's b. c. Lord of the Isles (winner of the 2000
Guineas), by Touchstone (Aldcroft), third, a head only from Kingstown,
Mr. Adkins' b. c. Flatterer by Hetman Platoff (Bartholomew), a bad



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