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pidly becoming favourites with the Melton men; 

 and" one of them, Mr. Angerstein's The Rapid Roan, 

 beat off everything in a very fast thirty-five minutes 

 from Stanford Gorse, with a second fox, late on a 

 March afternoon in 1855. We should fancy this 

 horse pretty nearly if not the premier of the Knight's 

 stock so far, and although he is about sixteen and 

 a-half hands, he was out of a low, white-legged, 

 black, pony sort of mare, which now runs in a car- 

 rier's cart, after acting for six years as hack to an 

 eighteen-stone surgeon. There seems to be a special 

 luck attending surgeons 5 hacks both on the turf 

 and at the coverside. Lancet, who was bought not for 

 501 guineas but 620 guineas, from Mr. John Nether- 

 coat by Mr. Cooke over the Pytchley Club dinner 

 table, was, as we have seen, originally one, and so 

 was the mean crooked-ankled dam of Castrel, Reu- 

 bens, and Selim (all by Buzzard), whose Newmarket 

 owner, Mr. Sandiver, would often ride her for a bye 

 hour on to the Heath, which was to be trodden by 

 such countless winning descendants, on his way to 

 see patients on the race afternoons. 



The Cure, rogue as he ran in the St. Leger, was a 

 great favourite in the North Riding, from whence 

 he has emigrated to Lincolnshire, and his stock in- 

 variably catch his finely-chiselled head and fiery eye. 

 In the hunting classes at one of the recent Catterick 

 Horse Shows, we find him the favoured sire of the 

 " best colt foal for the field/' while President, Volti- 

 geur, and his brother Barntoii, were alike honoured 

 in the competition of yearling, two-year-old, and 

 four-year-old " colts or fillies." The Sandbeck toast 

 of " King and Catton" might be drunk without any 

 inappropriateness at a hunt-dinner, as the old horse 

 has left a long line of stout-hearts behind him. The 

 Duke of Buccleuch's Norman by Scarborough, who 

 has just carried Williamson through a ninth season, 

 after being ridden by one of the whips for two, is 



