WOODPECKER—was a horse whose blood and performances rendered him, as a racer, and stallion, of the most distinguished celebrity. He was bred by Sir C. Davers; foaled in 1773; got by _Herod_, dam (_Miss Ramsden_) by _Old Cade_, grand-dam by Lord Lonsdale's Bay _Arabian_. His winnings are now become too remote to give in the detail. As a stallion, his progeny are infinite; amongst the principal of which the following have been the most conspicuous. In 1789, _Bullfinch_ won 300 guineas, 100 guineas, 20 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, and 50 guineas, at Newmarket. _Chanticleer_, 650 guineas, 500 guineas, and 400 guineas, at Newmarket. _Cormorant_, 135 guineas, 62 guineas, 40 guineas, 200 guineas, 300 guineas, 62½ guineas, 300 guineas, and 75 guineas, at Newmarket. _Hawk_, 100 guineas, 150 guineas, and 50 guineas, at Newmarket. _Seagull_, 35 guineas, and 800 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, 62 guineas, 250 guineas, 200 guineas, 20 guineas, 200 guineas, 400 guineas, 160 guineas, and 300 guineas, at Newmarket. _Swallow_, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. _Woodlark_, 50_l._ at Stockbridge, and the King's Hundred Guineas, at Winchester, and Salisbury. In 1790, twenty-seven of his get started, and were the winners of _seventy-eight_ subscriptions, sweepstakes, matches, and plates. _Bat_ won 100 guineas, 50 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. A bay filly out of _Camilla_, 200 guineas, 143 guineas, and 200 guineas, at the same. _Buzzard_, 100 guineas, 50 guineas, 200 guineas, and 200 guineas, at Newmarket. _Chanticleer_, 300 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 152 guineas, at Newmarket. _Cormorant_, 50_l._ 100 guineas, 200 guineas, 400 guineas, 200 guineas, and 60 guineas, at Newmarket. _Dragon_, 200 guineas, 200 guineas, 200 guineas, 450 guineas, 100 guineas, 88 guineas, 45 guineas, 200 guineas, and 200 guineas, at the same. _Griffin_, 300 guineas, 120 guineas, and 125 guineas, at Newmarket. _Isabel_, 50_l._ 100 guineas, 300 guineas, and 150 guineas, at Newmarket. _Mrs. Candour_, 50 guineas, 50 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at the same. _Pecker_, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 100 guineas, 200 guineas, 100 guineas, and 100 guineas, at Newmarket. _Seagull_, 200 guineas, 500 guineas, and the Grosvenor Stakes, at Newmarket; the Oatlands Stakes, of 100 guineas each, nineteen subscribers, and 500 guineas, at Ascot Heath; 60 guineas, 250 guineas, 200 guineas, and 300 guineas, at Newmarket; and _Tom Tit_, 50_l._ at Stamford, 97_l._ 5_s._ 0_d._ at Nottingham, and 50_l._ at Derby.