Stallions of the racing kind were never known to have covered at so high a price as in the memory of the present generation. _Marsk_, after the appearance of that prodigy _Eclipse_, covered a certain number of mares at 100 guineas each; and none now of the first celebrity, cover at less than ten, fifteen, or twenty. Those in the highest sporting estimation, and announced for the present season, 1803, are _Alexander_, at 10 guineas; _Ambrosio_, 10 guineas; _Beningbrough_, 10 guineas; _Buzzard_, 10 guineas; _Coriander_, 10 guineas; _Dungannon_, 10 guineas; and _Sir Harry_, at five. _Hambletonian_, 10 guineas; and _Patriot_, at five. _Volunteer_, at 10 guineas; and _Shuttle_, at five. _Pegasus_, _Precipitate_, and _Sir Solomon_, at 10 guineas each. _Stamford_, _Idris_, _Meteor_, and _Mr. Teazle_, at five. _Sir Peter Teazle_, 15 guineas; _Young Eclipse_, 20 guineas; _Whisky_, _Worthy_, and _Waxy_, at 10 guineas; _Trumpator_, eight guineas; _Oscar_, at six. _Grouse_, _Gouty_, _Fidget_, _Totteridge_, _Don Quixote_, and _Old Tat_, at five guineas; and _Petworth_, _Stickler_, _Warter_, _Gamenut_, _Moorcock_, (brother to _Grouse_,) and _Zachariah_, at three. The following famous stallions died at or about the dates annexed to their names. _Old Fox_, in 1738, aged 23 years. _Old Partner_, 1747, aged 29. The GODOLPHIN _Arabian_, 1753, 29. _Old Cade_, 1756. The BOLTON _Starling_, 1757. _Snip_, the same year. _Young Cade_, 1764. _Old Marsk_, July 1779. _King Herod_, May 12, 1780. _Matchem_, February 21, 1781. _Imperator_, 1786. _Morwick Ball_, January 4, 1787, aged 25 years. _Eclipse_, February 26, 1789, in his 26th year. _Goldfinder_, in 1789. _Fortitude_, the same year. _Conductor_, in 1790. _Phlegon_, the same year. _Faggergill_, 1791; and _Florizel_, the same year. _Fortunio_, _Jupiter_, and _Soldier_, all died in 1802. STANDARD—is the name of an instrument by which the exact heighth of a horse is taken (to the eighth of an inch) when engaged to carry _weight_ for _inches_, or entered to run for a GIVE and TAKE PLATE. The standard is about six feet six inches high, and so constructed with a line and pendulum, in the centre of a circle, that no mismeasurement, by fraud or imposition, can take place. The standard is one straight square piece of oak or mahogany, and divided, from the top to the bottom, in figured spaces of _four inches_ each; every space of which is termed a HAND; so that a horse of fifteen hands is precisely _five feet high_. From the standard branches horizontally a projecting arm, of about twenty inches, or two feet in length, which sliding upwards or downwards, is raised higher, or sunk lower, with the hand, till it rests easily upon the extreme point of the wither; when, by looking at the proper suspension of the pendulum and the figures at the same time, the heighth of the horse is instantly ascertained.