20 M ALTON. 



Haricot also bred Cramond, a useful horse in 

 his class, but hardly in the first rank, and Free- 

 man, who won some important races, and was a 

 useful handicap horse. 



To return to Queen Mary's offspring. Braxey 

 was nothing very wonderful, neither did Blooming 

 Heather earn much for her breeder whilst she was 

 his property ; but he always thought she would 

 have won the Oaks had she not been run into by 

 a cab, and a good deal knocked about, when 

 going through London. As it was she w^as only 

 beaten half-a-length by Mr. Rudston Read's 

 Marchioness, for whom the road was nicely 

 cleared by Lady Tatton being amiss, as well as 

 by the accident which happened to Blooming- 

 Heather. 



The favourite, Nettle, who was the property 

 of the notorious Wm. Palmer, of Bugeley, bolted 

 in the race, fell over the chains, and broke her 

 jockey's leg. It was subsequently asserted that 



and was second to St. Bennett in tlie Northumberland Plate in 

 1838, giving him 2st. Underhand ran for the Northumberland 

 Plato five times, won it tbreo times iu succession, ran unplaced 

 the fourth lime, and was second to Joey Jones, to whom he was 

 giving 3st. 51b. the last time he ran. His last race was for the 

 Queen's P.'ate at the Royal Caledonian Hunt meeting the same 

 year. The distance was four miles, and the old horse won easily 

 by ten lengths. He was little more than a pony, but was a 

 beautiful little horse, all ' steel and whipcord,' and liis nuxny 

 successes, under wliat were in his time considered welter weights, 

 arc a proof that size is not the chief virtue a racehorse can 

 possess, however much it may be the fasliion of the hour. 



