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dasher was bought by " The Squire " from a farmer 

 in Lincolnshire ; and both Lottery and Jerry were 

 picked up at Horncastle Fair, each, if we remember 

 rightly, for J180. The former was beaten shame- 

 fully in his first race, but James Mason soon taught 

 him his work ; and it is stated that till the day of 

 his death, when he was working as leader with Car- 

 low and one or two other ex-steeple-chasers in Messrs. 

 Hall of Neasdon's team, he was ready to fly open- 

 mouthed at his old " light-blue and black cap " con- 

 federate, whenever he caught a glimpse of him. His 

 notions of Auld Langsyne differed materially from 

 Clinker's. George Dockeray had the use of him as his 

 training hack for some time at Epsom, and his skin 

 as well as Duenna's, the ' ' long-headed old dun girl/' 

 who made him quake in her day, now serve as rugs 

 at the Dudding Hill farm. How changed the scene 

 at this " Short-horn TattersalTs " since the editor of 

 the Herd Book came there ! Oxen and kine for sale 

 are beginning to fill the 107 loose boxes ; the short- 

 bull Vocalist, grandson of the 1000-guinea Grand 

 Duke, now feeds from The Libel's bin ; and old Vul- 

 can and Chabron are the only sires in that row 

 where seven, headed by Harkaway and Epirus, once 

 stood. Jerry, by Catterick, changed hands much 

 oftener than Lottery. He was an idle and by no 

 means a brilliant horse ; but if he began quietly, he 

 could go on for ever. Three hundred guineas was 

 the highest figure he ever reached, and that sum, or 

 ,250, was given twice or three times over for him, 

 by Lords Suffield, Uxbridge, and Messrs. Elmoreand 

 Anderson. Of all " mud-larkers," the Uxbridge- 

 born British Yeoman was the premier. He was 

 " light everywhere, all wire in fact, and with far more 

 of the cut of a carriage-horse than a hunter;" but 

 although wonderfully steady, he was rather too slow 

 at his jumps for the present light-weight steeple- 

 racing. He was by Count Porro out of Pintail, who 



