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handed in great style near Kirkhouse, and she always 

 worked her way up through the ties, and finished 

 first or very nigh, though a trifle deficient in pace. 

 They considered her faster than Trovatore (5olbs.), 

 until their Waterloo trial at Brougham. Trovatore 

 was a very durable bitch, and quite as clever, and 

 decidedly better at Altcar on the grass than at South- 

 port on the plough. Lobelia and she were a " tight 

 fit ;" but, although Trovatore was great when she was 

 " the woman in possession," she had not quite the 

 pace of the Waterloo winner. Sackcloth did a good 

 deal in his Waterloo year, and so did Patent ; but she 

 worked nearly as hard as either of them, and ran well 

 in high company at the Altcar Club, the Waterloo, 

 the Southport, and the Scottish National within six 

 weeks. In her first season she was of no use, and, 

 sad to say, had puppies by a cur dog. She derived 

 her staying power from Ticket-of-Leave (62lbs.), and 

 there was no great hereditary pace on her dam Touch- 

 wood's side, who was a clever killer, and quite a 

 " plough farmer." Touchwood avenged her sister 

 Tirzah's defeat upon old Cheer Boys ; but she came 

 in season too often to train well. Tempest (6olbs.) by 

 Telemachus, out of Governess, was a good puppy, but 

 very hard to train. Sunbeam beat him in the 

 Waterloo Cup when he was only sixteen months old, 

 and he had won at Lowther before that. He was a 

 remarkably savage dog, and very nearly had his pound 

 of flesh out of the cockneys when he went to the 

 London Show. 



Tirzah and Traviata (sister to Animus, and then 

 only a mere whelp), were among the four or five which 

 Mr. Thompson retained when he sold off his grey- 

 hounds at Aldridge's in the spring of '67. All 

 Tirzah's litters, save one, have had a brindle in them, 

 which shows the stain of old Titmouse. It came out 

 in the Terrific litter through Trustee, who was a slash- 

 ing runner in his puppy days, and made the highest 



