_Flying Childers_ is said (as stories never lose by transmission) to have ran a mile in a minute: most probably, and most truly, he ran "_one third_ of a mile, at the _rate_ of a MILE in a MINUTE:" it is admitted, he ran, with nine stone two pounds upon his back, FOUR MILES in six minutes and forty-eight seconds; and this horse was undoubtedly got by, and the immediate descendant of, DARLEY'S _Arabian_. _Firetail_ and _Pumpkin_ ran a mile in a minute and a half; and each of their pedigrees run in a double and treble degree into the best Arabian blood in only two generations. _Bay Malton_ ran four miles over York (in the year 1763) in seven minutes, forty-three seconds and a half; and his blood was in and in from the GODOLPHIN _Arabian_, and two BARBS in parallel directions. _Eclipse_ ran the four miles over York, carrying twelve stone, in eight minutes, without going _at his rate_; and his pedigree goes directly on the side of the DAM to _Regulus_, who was got by the GODOLPHIN _Arabian_; and through his sire _Marsk_ to _Squirt_, who was got by BARTLET'S _Childers_; from which chain of authenticated facts, it should incontrovertibly appear to every mind of impartiality, that the breed of blood horses in England has been very much improved by the judicious crosses so successfully introduced. The pedigrees of all thorough bred horses have been so long and so justly recorded, that MR. WEATHERBY has given in his Stud Book, the accurate origin of above FOUR THOUSAND horses, mares, colts, and fillies, the produce of the last sixty years only, (exclusive of numbers of an _earlier_ date,) and in which may be traced the precise pedigree of every particular horse, up to the origin of any race or blood upon record.