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about four fields ahead of that where the lads were 

 drawn up in line, and mark their seat and hand as 

 they raced to him; but few of that high-mettled 

 corps are now left to tell the tale. As on the turf, 

 the blood of Derby winners is perpetually to be seen 

 in the first flight. The late Sir Richard Sutton was 

 especially fond of his Whitenose, by Emilius, who 

 has been shot and stuffed since the late Quorn sale ; 

 and when it was not Valentine's day, Mr. Savile 

 Foljambe liked best to find himself on Playfellow, 

 by Pan, out of a Waxy mare. Waxy carried 12st. 

 capitally himself, and beat his old rival Gohanna at 

 even weights for four miles under it The form of 

 these perpetual rivals was quite as near over the 

 longer distances of that day, as Celia's and Oakley's 

 were of late, and it was computed, that if both were 

 in form, Waxy would beat him at 31bs., but could 

 not give him 4lbs. We can scarcely remember to 

 have seen a Sultan in the hunting-field, and they 

 certainly had not much girth to inherit from him, 

 however pretty their forehands might be. 



Whitenose, who is said to have carried Sir Richard 

 over the greatest jump he ever rode at, somewhere in 

 the neighbourhood of Barkby Holt, would have given 

 us quite the idea of being a Touchstone horse and by 

 no means a hunter-model ; his thighs seemed almost 

 as straight as Partisan's were, and his withers perhaps 

 the highest we have ever seen. Sir Richard had 

 three falls the first day he rode him, but he never gave 

 him another during the twelve seasons they enjoyed 

 together. His black half-brother, The Emperor, was 

 also a wonderful horse, but for power Sir Richard 

 had few to beat Flambeau, and his thorough-bred 

 seventeen-hand Hotspur was extraordinary enough 

 to make converts of those who are not fond, as the late 

 baronet was, of size. The style, too, in which Ben 

 Morgan steered the grey Patch, as well as the vete- 

 ran Lop, and Doctor Smollett, while " Tearaway 



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