150 The Post and the Paddock. 



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. Be- 

 yond that point they would not go ; and Mr. Tatter- 

 sail knocked him down for 1000 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 Chifneys, 

 and the three were so confident of 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 

 galloped 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 de- 

 clare 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 the Spring Meeting on the Tchernaya, had 

 looked him over, he would indeed have said he was 

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

 gain the reward?' At the first glance, he seemed 



