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The story of that magnificent race has been told over and over 

 again in prose and verse, let it suffice to say here, that after a 

 glorious struggle the Flying Dutchman, for the first time, was 

 forced to strike his colours, and Voltigeur added one more brilliant 

 triumph— the greatest he had yet won — to the roll of his victories. 

 Still, the race had been a very close thing, and opinion was even 

 yet divided as to the merits of the two horses. At last the two 

 owners agreed to " fight their battle o'er again " at the York Spring 

 Meeting of 1851, for 1,000 guineas a-side, two miles over the 

 Old Com"se. It was " the race of the century," throwing into the 

 shade even the great historic match between Hambletonian and 

 Diamond. " The pair," says a well-known sportsman who witnessed 

 the contest, " were at even betting almost from the period when the 

 race was publicly announced up to the day on which it was run, 

 and as they went to the post there was not a shade of odds on one 

 side or the other. When the flag fell, Voltigeur went off" with the 

 running at the top of his pace, taking a lead of at least three 

 lengths and making very severe play, the heavy state of the ground 

 being taken into account. In this way they rounded the last turn, 

 when Marlow called upon " The Dutchman," with a request very 

 pointedly urged. As they passed the Stand, it was stride for stride 

 and a struggle of desperate effbit. It was too much for the 

 young one— he tired the sooner, and the Flying Dutchman passed 

 the winning-chair first by a short length. Both horses showed 

 marks of the keenness of the contest." The next day Lord 

 Eglinton declared that his horse was withdrawn from the turf for ever, 

 having lost only one of the sixteen races in which he had been en- 

 gaged. Voltigem", too, quitted the scene of his triumphs for the stud, 

 where his success as a sire was great, one of the best of his sons being 

 Vedette, with whom Lord Zetland won the Two Thousand in 1857. 



The earl's subsequent successes on the tuif are not of sufficient 

 importance to enumerate. After a long, upright, and honourable, 

 if not distinguished, career. Lord Zetland died at Aske, on the 6th 

 of May, 1873, in the 79th year of his age. And the great horse, 

 with which his name will be for ever associated, did not long 

 survive his master. Nine months later, on the 21st of February, 

 1874, Voltigeur met his death. His thigh had been broken by a 

 kick from a mare, and it was found necessary to shoot him. So 

 died one of the most famous of modern racehorses full of years and 

 honom's, and leaving behind him descendants who will, without 

 doubt, worthily perpetuate to generations yet to come the sterling 

 qualities of their renowned ancestor. 



THE EAEL OF GLASGOW. 



WITH all his eccentricities, and there was no man of his 

 time had more of them, the touchy, crotchety, headstrong 

 old Scotch nobleman, who forms the subject of our present sketch, 



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