6 M ALTON. 



In 1849 she produced lier first foal, Lady 

 Agnes, by Irish Birdcatcher, and a lively speci- 

 men of the thoroughbred she turned out. She 

 had gone on nicely in her breaking until Middle- 

 ham Moor fair, when she developed a most 

 undesirable temper, and was for a considerable 

 time a great source of trouble and annoyance to 

 her owner. Abdale had been riding her at 

 exercise and her o-irths had ofot a little slack. 

 He was riding her home when she started at 

 some cattle, and the saddle becoming disj^laced, 

 Abdale could not recover his balance and she 

 put him down. He tightened the girths and 

 remounted, and feeling a little annoyed at the 

 contretemps, he stuck his heels into her, and 

 bullied her a bit, with the inevitable result that 

 a battle royal ensued in which the mare was the 

 victor. The whole process of breaking-in had to 

 be irone throuQfh a second time, and she was not 

 ridden ao^ain until after Christmas. She ran for 

 the first time at Chester, where she was unplaced, 

 and where she showed a considerable amount of 

 temper. At Wrexham she got rid of Carroll 

 and took no part in the race ; and at Holywell, 

 where she was ridden by Osborne, she behaved 

 badly at the post, bolted into some whin bushes 

 at the hedge side, and threw away the ]"ace, 

 which she could scarcely have lost had she run 

 kindly. She scored her first victory in the Friday 

 Nursery at the Houghton meeting, a race for 



