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next day ( Accident at the races: a man's leg 

 broken, an arm dislocated ; taken promptly to the in- 

 firmary' all that sort of thing, and just through this 

 abominable bolting. He fell with me again, and put 

 out my thumbs, and broke two of my teeth. I finished 

 him at Perth. I knew he would bolt at the gate if 

 he could ; so I kept the horses between me and it, and 

 when I went up to cut them down, he was round in 

 a circle, and we were down in a heap. I up, and I'd 

 have caught them, but a lad said : 'Look! his leg's 

 lolloping about? I had him shot there and then ; 

 his leg was broken under the knee into twenty 

 pieces. 



" Lambton was no good, and I gave him to Jemmy 

 Laing, and he went back to England. He got his legs 

 under the van partition coming back from the races 

 one day, and I thought he was a dead horse. His 

 wrestling to get his legs out produced exostosis on 

 both his hind pasterns : his forelegs were bad enough 

 before, and now he was a cripple all round." 



Such are the strange Scottish antecedents, not 

 only of the little bay horse who was second to Volti- 

 geur in a field of sixteen sires for the 100- guinea 

 prize at Middlesboro/ the sire of Underhand, and 

 the now dearly beloved of John Osborne ; but of one 

 which has got, perhaps, more winners in proportion to 

 his chances than any horse of the day. The Cure was 

 a year at the Royal Stud, and left a 1,000-guinea 

 yearling behind him, and Lambton headed the Don- 

 caster yearling poll in 1864 with "the Prince of 



