208 Saddle and Sirloin. 



book in hand, and shouting, " Live hare F " Well 

 done, black !" &c., during the courses, with a. glee that 

 was quite infectious and irrepressible ; and he was 

 certain to be never far off if there was " a cheerful 

 fight" on the field. Again, when his constant friend 

 to the last, Mr. Tom Parrington, became secretary to 

 the Yorkshire Agricultural Society in '65, he deter- 

 mined to give him a good " cheer from the shore" 

 at Doncaster, and sent Blair Athol as a special 

 entry, who was located in a stall-box lined with 

 green and yellow calico, and attracted not a few 

 visitors. Cricket had no faster friend. The " three 

 Cambridge men" were constantly his guests during 

 the winter at Oran, and Newmarket was witness to 

 the quaint single-wicket match (" Bat v. Broomstick") 

 between him and Diver. It was played on the Bury 

 side of the town, and the Heath was the scene of his 

 catch-weight match on Neptunus against Fordham on 

 Levity, when he gave away some five stone, and got 

 beaten by twenty lengths. 



Racing was, after all, his sport of sports, as was 

 certain to be the case ^vith a man born at Catterick, 

 where his brother still farms the paternal acres, and 

 the " blue, white sleeves, red cap," often caught the 

 judge's eye. Saunterer and Tim . WhifHer are the 

 horses by which he will be best remembered, and the 

 Chester Cup with the latter, and the Great Metro- 

 politan with Haddington, were his most important 

 handicap victories. " Tim," as he strode along shaking 

 one ear, was a wonder, and the style in which, after 

 his sale to the late Duke of Cleveland, he fairly broke 

 the heart of Asteroid (when he forced the pace from the 

 Rifle Butts in Lord Derby's Plate at Doncaster) and 

 won both Goodwood and Doncaster Cups, left no 

 doubt upon that head. Two such horses as " Tim" 

 and " Mat's black" rarely fell to the share of one man. 

 Another "honest nigger," Haddington, who eventually 

 went to China, was a good second for the Chester 



