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Houldsworth's green and gold jacket was occasionally 

 seen, and The Earl was a great hand at four mile 

 heats for the Queen's Plate. He liked to have his 

 ugly head first in heats one and two, whereas some 

 used to wait away entirely for the first heat, and just 

 save their distance. The man with his flag in the 

 distance chair was an absolute necessity in those heat 

 days, and one of the most vigorous protests we re- 

 member against his judgment was Jem Mason's at 

 Mie Kensington Hippodrome, in '39. Capital horses 

 rrived at Carlisle, year after year, from Middleham, 

 each September, many of them en route to the Cale- 

 donian Hunt, but up to the present date there have 

 been only two St. Leger winners among them. One 

 of them, Caller Ou, won the Guineas, but Warlock's 

 jockey mistook the winning-post, when he had every- 

 thing beat in the Cumberland Plate. We remember 

 seeing Theodore on " the sands" at an agricultural 

 show, but Gregson, " that great swell of a grey," was 

 there too, in his prime, and the St. Leger mouse-brown, 

 with the corny feet, was hardly looked at by the 

 judges, except for the interest which attaches to a 

 horse who wins such a race with ioo/. to a walking- 

 stick or a bottle of soda-water against him. Co- 

 rinthian, who ran fourth to him, was, if we remember 

 rightly, not sent from Barrock Lodge that day, but 

 Royalist came as usual from Holme House in his blue 

 rosettes. He was a good-looking, lightrboned horse, 

 with a very strong neck, and Templeman considers 

 him to be one of the slowest and gamest he ever 

 crossed. " Sim," who was always very fond of Carlisle 

 course, and formed one of a large Yorkshire party at 

 Mrs. Tweedell's in Rickergate, won twice with him for 

 Mr. Lambton, the first year he rode there. The pace 

 was so hot in one race that Royalist was beaten a 

 mile from home, but reached his horses inch by inch. 

 " Sim's" luck was not so great, when at a pinch he 

 had to ride Lady Moore Carew in a big exercise 



