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largest thorough-bred horse too; in short, a fine 

 coach-horse looking animal, with an extraordinarily- 

 high fore-end, and feet like cheese-plates, which he 

 dished about sadly as he went along. The farmers 

 were delighted with him, and he got some coach and 

 cab horses for London, but they were rather of the 

 flatcatcher sort, and, like himself, often made a 

 noise in the world. The bad success of these colts 

 at last somewhat sickened farmers of breeding from 

 a " blood-hoss." " If such a fine animal as Syco- 

 phant," they argued, ' ' could not get horses to pay, 

 what could ?" He eventually went to Russia, after 

 having no mares here for the last season or two, and 

 it is to be hoped they liked him; still, to give him 

 his due, he got a fair race-horse in Tufthunter. Sir 

 B,. S. Adair has had a small horse called Linkboy, 

 by Caesar out of Brilliant, by Lamplighter, for some 

 years, who has got some good chargers and harness 

 horses. Mr. J. G. Sheppard (at Ash High House) 

 kept old Lamplighter, who was quite a model, for a 

 season or two, about ten years since ; but he had but 

 few mares, and being over twenty years old, the colts 

 he left were small, though very handsome and wiry. 

 The late Sir Edward Gooch bought Weatherbit for 

 J200 from the Duke of Bedford, and after having 

 him a season at Benacre, Weathergage came out, and 

 then the Duke hired him back for two seasons, giving 

 Sir Edward the use of Oakley in his place as well. 

 The former was sold at TattersalFs lately for 400 

 guineas, after 1,000 guineas had, it is said, been 

 refused for him. He is rather deficient in action, 

 and tied in his shoulders, which are short and small, 

 but especially handsome and good in his hind- 

 quarters. We thought, as we looked him over in his 

 TattersalPs box the other day, that we had seldom 

 seen quarters descend so gracefully into the thighs, 

 which are, by-the-bye, a little too straight for a hill. 

 Among the lights of other days in Suffolk we must 



