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Clipper," and that he could never go half fast 

 enough for him any part of the run. Apropos of this 

 runaway match, the best riders almost universally 

 agree that although some horses get their heads up 

 and cannot be rounded without a curb, it should only 

 be used as an auxiliary, and that if a horse runs away 

 with you, you must have recourse to the snaffle. Mr. 

 George Talbot, who formerly managed Lord Vernon's 

 hounds in the days of Sam Lawley, never allowed a 

 curb-bridle to be used ; and Dick Knight, Lord 

 Spencer's huntsman, and the finest of horsemen, 

 adopted the same rule. Clasher 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 i8o/. The former 

 was beaten shamefully 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 Carlow 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" confederate, whenever he caught a glimpse 

 of him. His notions of Auld Langsyne differed ma- 

 terially 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 ' Tattersall's " 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 looo-guinea Grand 

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

 Vulcan 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 



