The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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Persons of every description, qualified and unqualified, stand exactly
in the same state with respect to PHEASANTS as with PARTRIDGES, so
lately described under that head, but with this difference in the legal
_season_ for taking or killing: it is enacted by two distinct
legislative Acts of the present reign, That any person who shall, under
any pretence whatever, _take_, _kill_, _destroy_, _carry_, _fell_,
_buy_, or _have in his possession_, any PHEASANT, between the _first_
day of _February_ and the _first_ day of _October_, (unless such
pheasant shall have been taken in the proper season, and kept in a mew
or breeding-place,) shall forfeit FIVE POUNDS for every PHEASANT so
taken, to be paid to the informer, with full costs of suit.
PHÆNOMENON—was one of the most celebrated sons of _Herod_, both as a
RACER and a STALLION. He was bred by SIR J. KAYE, and foaled in 1780;
was got by _Herod_, dam (_Frenzy_) by _Eclipse_, grand-dam by
_Engineer_, out of _Lass of the Mill_, who was got by _Traveller_. His
performances upon the _turf_ so strictly corresponded with his name,
that the infinity of mares brought to him in the first seasons of his
covering, afforded him an opportunity of adding to his reputation in a
degree almost beyond former example. He covered in Yorkshire at 10
guineas a mare, and in 1791 produced the following winners: Lord A.
Hamilton's Chesnut Colt, who won two fifties; _Freeholder_, who won 100
guineas at York, and a 50 at Stockton; _Mongrel_, who won 25 guineas at
Lewes; _Pigeon_, who won 200 guineas at York, 50 at Manchester, 50 at
Wakefield, 50 at Boroughbridge, and 50 at Northallerton; _Roman_, 140
guineas at York; _Rosalind_, 700 guineas, and 300 guineas, at York, 300
guineas at Doncaster, and 50_l._ at New Malton; and _Stride_, 600
guineas at York.
In 1792, Lord A. Hamilton's Brown Colt, 120 guineas at Doncaster, and
50_l._ at Penrith; _Charactacus_, 50_l._ at Tenbury; _Comet_, 50 at
York, 50 at Hull, and two 50's at New Malton; _Forester_, 50 at
Carlisle; _Freeholder_, 50 at Durham; _Heroine_, 300 guineas at
Newmarket, 100 guineas and 50 at ditto; _Huby_, 400 guineas and 50_l._
at York, 50_l._ and 50 guineas at Carlisle, and 100_l._ at Doncaster;
_Lizard_, 50_l._ at Preston; _Pigeon_, 50_l._ at Catterick Bridge;
_Rosalind_, 150 guineas at York, the King's Plate, and 50_l._ at
Lincoln; _Squirrel_, 125 guineas at York, 160 at Wakefield, and 100
guineas at Doncaster.
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