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Baird in the summer of 1885, and ran second to 

 Kino' Monmouth in the Great Yorkshire Handi- 

 cap the first time he carried his colours. He was 

 rather a disappointing horse to Mr. Baird at first, 

 but was fairly successful in 1886, when he won 

 the Cumberland Plate, as well as one or two 

 minor handicaps. 



Ben Alder is a well-shaped horse, and is one 

 of the biggest boned thoroughbreds we remember 

 to have seen, and he has stood the wear and tear 

 of training well. A powerful and stoutly bred 

 horse/" with so good a constitution as he possesses, 

 he should make a valuable sire, especially for 

 steeple-chasers and hunters, his muscular quar- 

 ters and big thighs and hocks looking very like 

 getting over a country. 



It was a fine autumn day when we visited 

 Highfield, and, luckily, our visit was so timed as 

 to fall in with the first schooling of the yearlings. 

 And a grand looking lot they are, both home- 

 bred ones and Doncaster purchases. Mr. I'Anson 

 and his employers have, as usual, been large 

 buyers at the Doncaster sales. A brown colt by 

 Beauclerc out of Stella, own brother to Luminary, 

 who beat Melton by a head in the July Stakes, 

 is a lengthy, Avell-grown colt, and shows a lot 

 of racing promise, and Mr. Perkins bought 

 him reasonably enough at 550 guineas. The 



" He is by King Lucl, out of Reveillee, by Rataplan, her dam, 

 Charmione, by Orlando, out of Vivandiere by Voltaire. 



