1 94 The Post and the Paddock. 



finely-knit and strong-quartered horses, who look as 

 if they would answer to a pull and " come again" 

 under any amount of distress, as only an English horse 

 can ; and Scythian (whom we last heard of travelling 

 1600 miles by a cranky railway and in a negro's 

 charge, to join Glencoe in Kentucky), Fazzoletto, and 

 Teddington have not belied his promise. His year- 

 ling stock uniformly fetch the highest prices of the 

 day, and stamp him as the most popular racehorse- 

 sire we have. As a general thing they are a little 

 gaudy ; and one of the '56 Hampton Court yearlings, 

 with a white face and four long white stockings, is the 

 breathing fac-simile of Vulture. Nat does not perhaps 

 think him so good as Glencoe, but he was the horse 

 of all others he loved most to ride. He used to say 

 of him that he never knew him change legs either in a 

 race or at exercise, and that his stroke, as he watched 

 it from his back, had all the wondrous precision of an 

 engine piston ; and he now adds that next to him he 

 liked to feel himself on Rifleman. For look, there is 

 no untried son of Touchstone we prefer to the lengthy, 

 short-legged Newminster, who has the honour of old 

 Beeswing in his stud-keeping, and is not likely to 

 disgrace her. 



A successful blood sire has been as good as a long 

 annuity to many an owner, and earned its special will- 

 clause like " The Black Mare" in re Pettingall, whose - 

 5O/. per annum " Account" was so carefully considered 

 by Sir Knight Bruce in reference to the possible rise 

 in hay and corn during her life. Matchem, whose 

 galloping likeness, with his two hind legs on the 

 ground and his two front in the air, still creaks on 

 many a village signboard in the north, produced no 

 less than I7,ooo/. to his owner. Eclipse realized 

 nearly that sum ; and Highflyer, whose stock were 

 of every colour down to piebalds, an almost fabulous 

 amount during a much shorter career. Orvile's fee 

 was as low as ten guineas, but he was still worth 



