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" Let both divide the crown." If you praised the one, 

 he turned on to you with the other. 



The top is quite a pedigreed Bashan bulls bred 

 by Booth to the right, and bulls introduced into the 

 herd to the left. Easby of the Blossom, and Aga- 

 memnon of the Anna tribes with Isaac, Julius Caesar, 

 Red Rover, and Young Alexander are among the 

 ''' Ayes to the right," as they say in the House of 

 Commons. So is Raspberry, the first Warlaby bull, 

 and perhaps the biggest that ever stood in its stalls, 

 where he unhappily got hung. On the left, there 

 are mighty heroes in Albion, a purchase at Charles 

 Colling's sale in 1810 ; Pilot, a rather small bull, from 

 Robert Colling's sale in 1818, who was once let and 

 recovered again ; and Mason's Matchem who did so 

 much for Killerby. Mr. Booth sent Young Carnation 

 to him, and having thus put the blood through his 

 own filter, he used Young Matchem to the Broughton 

 family with remarkable effect. There too are Raine's 

 Lord Lieutenant, " a short-legged, thick and lusty dog, 

 but rather lacking in hair," the sire of Leonard, whose 

 daughters, Bliss and Bianca to wit, ran more to milk, 

 as Buckingham's did to beef; Mussulman, of Cra- 

 dock's Cherry blood, who got Buckingham ; and Lord 

 Stanley, who brought back the family blood from 

 Castle Howard, and was the sire of Birthday. 



John Osborne seemed quite an Old Parr in onr 

 minds, and yet he had hardly been known on the turf 

 much before Charles the Twelfth's year. He was at 

 one time head lad under Skaife, when the Duke of 

 Leeds kept race-horses at Hornby Castle, with " Sim" 

 Templeman as his jockey. " Chocolate and black 

 cap" were the Leeds colours, and he adopted them 

 when His Grace died. Our first remembrance of him 

 on the turf is in connexion with Mr. Loy's Ararat, one 

 of the colts which, in conjunction with The Commo- 

 dore, Malvolio, and Lanercost, made Mr. Ramshay's 

 Liverpool so popular. The bay was a pretty good 



