In the first Spring Meeting of 1791, he won the renewed 1400 guineas, a subscription of 200 guineas each, half forfeit; beating _Pipator_; fourteen having paid forfeit. In the second Spring Meeting he received 150 guineas forfeit of four, for a sweepstakes of 300 guineas each, over the Beacon. The first Spring Meeting, 1792, he won the King's Plate at Newmarket, beating those famous horses _Coriander_, _Gustavus_, and _Toby_, with the odds ten to one against him at starting. At Stockbridge he won 50_l._ beating _Thalia_. He won the King's Plate at Winchester; walked over for a sweepstakes of 10 guineas each, five subscribers, at Bedford; won the King's Hundred in the first October Meeting at Newmarket, beating _Skylark_; and in the second a subscription of 60 guineas, beating _Skylark_ and _Espersykes_, with the odds against him at starting. In 1793 he started but twice, and was beat each time by the celebrated _Coriander_. In 1794, on the first day of the first Spring Meeting at Newmarket, he won a 50_l._ plate, beating _Serpent_ and _No Pretender_; about which time the DUKE of BEDFORD beginning to reduce his racing establishment, _Skyscraper_ appeared no more on the turf. He has hitherto covered at Woburn Abbey, in Bedfordshire; but is now announced for the ensuing season, 1803, at Tytherton, near Chippenham, Wilts, at TEN GUINEAS a mare, and _half a guinea_ the groom.
SLOT.—The impression of a deer's foot upon the earth, so as to be perceptible, is then called _a slot_; and when, in consequence of storms, rain, sleet, or extreme drought, the hounds cannot carry on the scent, the huntsman and his assistants have no alternative, but to avail themselves of every possible clue and information from the SLOT, to prevent the disgrace of the HOUNDS being _beat_, and the deer _lost_.
SMITHFIELD—is the name of a most celebrated spot in the Metropolis, from which a SPORTSMAN is not likely to derive either _pleasure_ or _emolument_; unless it is in the purchase of diseased or emaciated subjects for his HOUNDS. To those in remote parts of the kingdom, it may not be inapplicable to be informed, that Smithfield is the great CATTLE MARKET for the consumption of the infinite body of inhabitants in the cities of London, Westminster, their suburbs, and the environs for some miles round. The principal days are MONDAY and FRIDAY in every week; on which some hundreds of OXEN, in a state of perfection for slaughter, and thousands of SHEEP and LAMBS, are constantly transferred to supply the immense demand. The afternoons of those days are principally appropriated to the purchase and sale of _aged_, _crippled_, and _worn-out_ horses; the greater part of whom are only fit to receive sentence from the INSPECTOR, previous to their being delivered to the _nacker_, (or slaughterman,) unless it is _some few_, with still remaining strength enough to drag the carts of the industrious about the inferior streets, with a supply of vegetables in the summer, and potatoes in the winter, for the accommodation of the lower classes of society.