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olds, and as an artist for keeping them on their legs 

 when they were brought out, he had no superior. 

 During the '52 season, Exact and Lambton were like 

 the man and woman in the clock when one wasn't 

 out, the other was. Exact ran sixteen times, and 

 won nine ; and Lambton was out once less, and won 

 once more. Very often they were in the same stake, 

 and John had some little difficulty in deciding which was 

 to go. At the York August of that year, his London 

 commissioner backed the wrong one for a race, and 

 John had to follow the "wires," and change his tactics 

 forthwith. They drew about iooo/. between them in 

 stakes that meeting, which John thought a great thing, 

 as he had not then dealt in Little Stag, or Prince 

 Arthur, King Arthur, Wild Agnes, and the rest of 

 that lucky Agnes family, of which he sold two, 

 " Little" and " Miss," to the present Sir Tatton Sykes. 

 It might be the bargain was better, and therefore he 

 liked to send his best mares en masse to a horse if the 

 blood suited, and Birdcatcher, Weatherbit, and The 

 Cure were all his particulars. For Colsterdale, which 

 he purchased for 3OO/. at the Sledmere sale, he had 

 some fancy, and his brood mares had gradually 

 increased and multiplied till there were forty of them. 

 No one did more with The Cures, and he had a strong 

 attachment to Wild Dayrell, though he did not use 

 him in the same wholesale way. He also left a good 

 word behind him for Piccador. 



Brown Brandy and Cherry Brandy and Lord 

 Alfred were ready to appear at the footlights, when 

 Exact and Lambton (for no one knew the exact 

 moment to sell better) had departed south. The 

 grey was a son of Chanticleer and Agnes, and for 

 soundness a wonder. He began on March 29th, and 

 had run 24 races, and won 9 of them on Oct. 28th, 

 the day after his companion Lady Tatton had won 

 the Nursery Stakes. Next year, Manganese, giving 

 2st. 4lbs. to Shelah, was second for the Nursery 



