SIR SOLOMON,—the name of a horse of much recent racing reputation: he was got by SIR PETER TEAZLE, dam (_Matron_) by _Florizel_, who was got by _Herod_. _Sir Solomon_ was bred by Earl Fitzwilliam, foaled in 1796, and started for _six_ different three year old stakes, (in the name of _Tankersley_,) always running in a capital form, and in a good place, but without winning once in that year. He was then purchased by MR. JOHNSON, and started 1800 for the King's Plate at Nottingham (with his new name) which he won easy, beating _Welter_, _Honeycomb_, and _Coniac_; and the next day a 50_l._ plate. At York he won the King's hundred, beating _Applegarth_, and _Honeycomb_. In 1801, he won five times out of the six stakes and plates he started for. He won the Stand Plate at York, beating those famous horses _Chance_, _Cockboat_, and _Timothy_; the King's Plate at Newcastle, with the gold cup and 130 guineas at the same; the gold cup at Nottingham, and 500 guineas at Doncaster. In 1802 he won the gold cup, value 100 guineas, and 60 guineas in specie, at Newcastle. A subscription of 25 guineas each, nine subscribers, and 268_l._ 15_s._ at York, (beating the famous _Cockfighter_,) 50_l._ and 70 guineas, at Lincoln. He was since purchased by Mr. Lumley Saville, and is announced to cover the present season, 1803, (10 guineas a mare, and 10_s._ 6_d._ the groom,) at Rufford, in Nottinghamshire.
SITFAST.—A sitfast is an eschar upon the side of a horse, which having been originally a warble, from the pressure and friction of the girth-buckle, (indiscreetly permitted to come upon, or near to, the edge of the pad,) is, by a repetition of the injury, converted into a _sitfast_; or, in terms of easier comprehension, a circular or oblong space of the integument, so completely cauterized by the repeated heat and friction, that it bears all the appearance of a piece of burnt leather inserted upon the spot. When, by carelessness and neglect, it has acquired the state now described, there is but one mode of cure, which is instrumental extirpation. The edge being raised so as to admit of being taken hold of by either FORCEPS, or common PINCERS, it may be separated from the substance to which it adheres, by any common operator, and healed in a few days, almost as soon, and with as little difficulty, as the most trifling and superficial laceration.