The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

FIDGET

,—the name of a horse of much celebrity, who won as many capital stakes as most horses of his time. He was bred by Mr. Vernon; was got by Florizel; dam by Matchem, out of an own sister to Sweetbriar. In the possession of the Duke of Bedford, he became a stallion at Wooburn, and was the sire of Augusta, Cub, Victor, Frisky, Hamadryad, Nestler, Fantail, Zemise, Granadilla, Lady Sarah, St. Vitus; all winners; as well as a great number of colts and fillies, who won large stakes at three and four years old, but ran without a name.