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Cattenck Races. 



of it in a great 4O-minutes' run, with a brush at the 

 end of it, from Streatham Whin to Harlsey ; and 

 it was in something nearly as good, with the Hur- 

 worth from Dinsdale to Windlestone, that he jumped 

 the Skerne near Aycliffe on Miss Marske by Sir 

 Harry, and sold her soon after for 200 guineas. Cock 

 Robin and The Peacock were his best Woldsman 

 horses. 



We have always had a peculiar feeling for Catterick 

 Bridge and its race-course, from their association with 

 the old coaching and posting days. The Stand is 

 " quite a primitive little shop," with cottages under it 

 opening out into the road. The big meadow, which 

 is entered through those iron gates in front of the 

 Bridge Inn, is generally mown for hay, and some years 

 since the T.Y.C. course was extended, and now runs 

 at the edge of an arable farm. The course is I mile 

 246 yards round, and is the scene of the post colloquy* 

 between the gentleman-rider and the starter, which 

 the pencil of a lady in the neighbourhood duly im- 

 mortalized in Punch. The snow never lies as it does 

 on the Richmond hills, and often in stress of weather 

 the strings are sent over from there to gallop each 

 morning. Lord Zetland's horses have been mostly 

 tried in Catterick, and it is still more memorable for 

 the " sensation gallops " of Plaudit, when he went 

 puffing along, led by Strathconan and Lozenge, and 

 yet found some to believe in him and ' his Two 

 Thousand fortunes to the last. Touts generally come 

 on these occasions, and hang about the Bridge all day 

 till they "get tight," and are well up to correspondence 

 pitch. Inheritress hated the course, but was quite 

 devoted to the ups and downs of Richmond. Never 

 was mare more sensitive ; and if the course or the day 



* He was asked by the starter why he didn't go, and replied that as 

 he had orders to make a waiting race of it, he might as well wait there 

 as anywhere else. 



