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FOUNDER OF A GREAT LINE OF HORSES. Blacklock. to which the great excellence of the Galopin tribe is generally and probably erroneously ascribed, was an immense bay horse with a fiddle head of enormous size, which earned for him the sobriquet, of the "Bishop Burton Monstrosity." lie was foaled in 1S14. His breeder purchased Black-locks dam in 1S10 for 5.. He was a great race horse and a successful sire, hnt though he left Rru-tandorf. Buzzard, Laurel, Malek, Tranby. Warlaby. Velocipede. Young Blacklock and Voltaire behind, all witli the exception of Voltaire are dead iu the direct line.
