280 FIELD AND FERN. 



This Cumberland brown, which Mr. Ramsay bought 

 from Mr. Ramshay* for 1,500 gs., had now the cham- 

 pionship of the Scottish Turf, and held it against Bel- 

 lona, Malvolio, and all comers, at Cupar Fife. Then 

 came that memorable Kelso struggle, in which, with 

 The Doctor to help, and under very high weights, he 

 beat Beeswing for the Gold Cup, cleverly and with no- 

 thing to force the running, and 21bs. the worst of the 

 weights, which had been reduced about a stone, 

 finished level with her in a two-mile plate that same 

 afternoon. 



At Stirling it was the turn of Mr. Meiklam and 

 the dark blue and white stripes with Broadwath and 

 "Wee Willie; and Charles XII. and Job Marson 

 were at Perth the following year, to look after The 

 Whip for Mr. Andrew Johnstone. At Ayr, in '43, 

 it was nothing but " dancing after a shadow" ; but that 

 mare had to yield in her turn when Alice Hawthorn 

 met her at Dumfries next year. In '45, Pilot led 

 the way at Kelso ; and Mr. Merry's prowess at Perth, 

 Lord Eglinton's with Eryx and Plaudit at Ayr, 

 Inheritress's and Chanticleer's at Edinburgh, and 

 Elthiron's at Stirling, bring matters up to '49. El- 

 thiron ran the wrong side of a post next year at 

 Perth, where Haricot had quite a blaze of triumph. 

 Old Clothworker tried his hand at Ayr in the Exhibi- 

 tion year ; but although his owner was on him three 

 times, at 8st. lOlbs. and upwards, the chesnut was 



* This will correct a slight typographical confusion between these names 

 in " Scottish Racing." " SCOTT AND SEBBIGHT," pp. 180-192. 



