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beaten five times in all. Miss Ann was the bay 

 queen of the revels at Edinburgh in '52 ; and then 

 Kelso had one of its crack meetings, in which Bal- 

 rownie, Goorkah, and Defiance divided the honours. 

 Stirling, in '54, was quite a Wild Huntsman carni- 

 val; and Lord Eglinton's colours caught Mr. Night- 

 ingale's eye for the last time in the handicap with 

 Bianca. Braxy, Braxy and Heir of Linne, and 

 Sprig of Shillelah had the lion's share in 1855-57 

 at Perth, Ayr, and Edinburgh. 



Ignoramus was the crack at Kelso ; and Under- 

 hand, after having everything his own way at Perth 

 in '59, was beaten twice by Caller Ou at Ayr in 

 '60, and was last to Caller On at Edinburgh in '61. 

 Fobert had, however, an avenger of his " little bay 

 horse" in Oldminster, who beat the St. Leger mare 

 at 51bs. in a canter, and at evens by a head, with 

 Peggy Taft to look on each time. And so " the ball 

 was kept rolling" at Kelso in '62, when Haddington 

 was all potent ; at Perth, of which we have told be- 

 fore -, and finally at Ayr, where St. Alexis, a cheap 

 Doncaster purchase, did j ust what he chose with his 

 fields, and Joe Graham, the little Dumfriesshire 

 huntsman, achieved the great coup of his life by win- 

 ning with his 50 horse Blood Royal that Caledo- 

 nian Cup for which the highest families in Scotland 

 have often longed in vain. 



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