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market for sale, and were taking their airings at the 

 foot of the Warren Hill. A report had reached them, 

 that there was a wonderfully fine colt by Emilius, out 

 of Cressida, among the lot. The blood of this re- 

 nowned son of Orvile was just coming into fashion, 

 and as they were both stricken with a deep fancy for 

 the colt the moment they set eyes on him, Will boldly 

 determined to make a dash for a second Zinganee, 

 and to have him at any price. He was quite un- 

 broken at the time, and the stable were so anxious 

 to keep him, that they ran him up to 950 guineas. 

 Beyond that point they would not go ; and Mr. Tat- 

 tersall knocked him down for 1,000 guineas to Will 

 Chifney. There was no room for him at either 

 Will's or Sam's stables, and hence he stood for a few 

 months at Sam Day's, and learnt his first lesson in 

 the way he should go from the hands and lips of 

 Martin Starling. During the whole of his two-year 

 old season he was untried, either in public or private. 

 Dilly had a share in him along with the Chifney s, 

 and the three were so confident in his powers, that 

 they engaged him very heavily, trusting to their no- 

 tions of his form, and a rough gallop or two with 

 Zinganee before Ascot. The first horse he ever gal- 

 loped with was Flacrow, and Will declares that he 

 never saw any young thing run so raw, or get beaten 

 off so far. He was a dark-bay animal, about whom 

 good judges formed the most opposite notions. Lord 

 Darlington took a violent dislike to him, and never 

 believed that he would stay the Derby course ; while 

 Lord Chesterfield used enthusiastically to declare 

 that he could look at him all day, and that he was 

 " the only blood horse he had ever seen." If the 

 shaggy Russian Major, who attended on a pony at 

 our recent Spring Meeting on the Tchernaya, had 

 looked him over, he would indeed have said he was 

 " English hoarse, fleet as winds for course, as would 

 gain the reward." At the first glance, he seemed 



