IRISH HOUNDS, AND THE MEN WHO RIDE TO THEM.-BY VENATOR WARD OF LANARKSHIRE-FLEETWOOD-ARDROSSAN-BEN- BRIGG-SOUTH LANCASHIRE-DEPTFORD INN-MALLENY— PLATE I. FILHO DA PUTA. ENGRAVED BY E. HACKER, FROM A PAINTING BY J. F. HERRING, SEN. We feel half inclined to introduce this plate with an apology. "What, another horse!" we fancy we hear some of our friends exclaim, on opening the number. "Another yet!" We plead guilty at once, but have a word or two ready by way of extenuation. It was our intention to have made a seasonable offering, laying the scene by the side of a trout stream-"the banks and braes o' bonny something -to suit the taste of the piscatorial sportsman, now busily engaged in carrying on the war; but, on receiving a proof, it struck us the attempt was scarcely up to the mark, and we were thus compelled to fall back on our reserved forces for something more worthy of the work. May we add, that success has attended our second cast? and when, moreover, we promise not to show another thorough-bred one 'till after the Derby, we are sure you will forego your purpose of tipping us a line as to "variety-pleasing more than one class&c., &c.;" and the disappointment- "Look on that print and you'll forget it all." Though we borrow the saying from Brother Jonathan, the spirit of the people in this, as well as in that land of independence, has long been all for "going ahead;" and loath indeed should we be to admit that we were not acting up to it. Still, "some d-d good-natured friend or another" may insinuate, that in embellishing the Work with portraits of Gibside Fairy, Filho da Puta, and other horses (however good they might have been) of by-gone times, instead of progressing we are rather travelling" back again.' Now, our idea, on the contrary, is, that such animals as were renowned for what they did themselves, and at present for what their descendants are doing, might prove fully as interesting as "the lights of our days"-agreeable refreshers to the veteran, and the next thing to absolute novelties in the eyes of the younger sportsman. Of Filho da Puta, the best runner of his day, and the sire of more good stout stock than, perhaps, any horse we could name, we proceed at once to full particulars. PEDIGREE. Filho da Puta, a brown horse, was bred by Mr. T. Hornby Morland, at Newmarket Farm, Finchley, in 1812; and was got by Haphazard, out of Mrs. Barnett (first called Taper) by Waxy, her dam by Woodpecker-Heinel by Squirrel-Principessa by Blank. Hap-hazard was by Sir Peter (by Highflyer), out of Miss Hervey by Eclipse, her dam Clio by Y. Cade-Starling-Bartlet's Childers -Bay Bolton-Byerly Turk-Bustler. Filho da Puta, Mrs. Barnet's first foal, was purchased at the foot |