48 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



Mile, in the Houghton of 1844. Old England made 

 his own running all the way, and the set-to be- 

 tween him and the two others, who challenged him 

 right and left in the cords, after he had got his pull, 

 was a perfect masterpiece. Young John, as fine a 

 horseman, both for power, seat, and science, as ever 

 held a bridle, certainly never rode better ; and those 

 who remember the half-sluggish half-roguish way 

 in which Old England invariably finished, can ap- 

 preciate the exquisite mouth-touching he required at 

 such a crisis, when the two were at his neck in the 

 last stride. Besides this bout, Harry Edwards out- 

 riding- Bill Scott over Knavesmire on the two-year- 

 old Naworth, or Connolly over the Beacon, on Don 

 John ; Chappie making running from end to end, 

 and winning a head on Lugwardine at Cheltenham, 

 or waiting on Landgrave for the Cambridgeshire 

 with such agonizing patience, till the last two strides, 

 that we felt that if we had possessed the aim of a Ca- 

 melford, we could have gladly taken a pistol out and 

 shot the reins in two ; Robinson doing Sam Dar- 

 ling by a short head on Barrier at Ascot, or rallying 

 Eathmines home for the Audley End ; Sam Rogers 

 holding ungenerous brutes like Vasa and "Walmer, 

 hard in front, and just coaxing them, after being 

 beaten once or twice in a race, to make one more 

 effort ; Sim Templeman getting his pull, and coming 

 again on the post with the British Yeoman for the 

 Doncaster Two-year-old Stakes, or lifting Catharina 

 home first by about a nose for the Manchester Cup ; 

 Alfred Day nursing the sinking Dervish at Goodwood, 

 or screwing in Vivandiere half a-head in front of 

 " Frank" on Iris ; Frank Butler biding his time 

 with Daniel O'Rourke in the Derby, or bringing up 

 Ninnyhammer in the last few strides at Ascot ; Nat 

 just getting up on Typee at Nottingham, and Meaux 

 at York ; Bartholomew, when he was quite a lad, rid- 

 ing a long rally home against Sam Day for the Port 



