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Offa's Dyke, by Goodison, went blind, but 

 recovered his sight; and Scorpion, ridden 

 by Joseph Rogers, now trainer at New- 

 market, fell dead at the distance-post, from 

 the rupture of a blood-vessel at the heart. 

 The distance was four miles, and only one 

 heat ! Mr. Thornhill is one of the best 

 judges of racing at Newmarket, and has one 

 of the largest studs at his seat at Riddles- 

 worth, whence the great Riddlesworth stakes 

 takes its name. He has won the Derby 

 with Sam and Sailor, both sons of Scud, 

 and the Oaks with Shoveler, also a daughter 

 of Scud. Previously to Sam's race, this 

 shrewd judge pronounced the Derby stakes 

 in his pocket ! and he also picked out 

 Gulnare as winner of the Oaks for the Duke 

 of Richmond, without the possibility, as he 

 expressed himself, of losing it, barring the 

 accident of a fall. The strange coincidence 

 of his winning the Derby with Sailor by 

 Scud) during a violent gale of wind, will 

 perhaps, never be forgotten at Epsom. Mr. 

 Thornhill owns yEmilius, the celebated sire 

 of Priam, Oxygen, etc., whose price is forty 

 guineas. Colonel Udney's name stood high 

 at Newmarket, but he has lately all but re- 



