1861 Prize Stallion Hotspur

This is a card advertising that Hotspur will serve mares at Allington near Devises.

Thoroughbreds £5.5s,  Half-Breds, £2.5s  Groom’s fee included

This celebrated Horse is by Sir Hercules, his dam by Rajah. He contested the Derby with Flying Dutchman in 1819, Beating the best horses of the year; at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, at Salisbury, he received a prize of £20, and was allowed by the most competent judges to be a model of symetry and action, he stands about 16 hand high, colour brown, with good bone and sound legs. He has proved himself to be a sure foal getter. His stock first-rate.