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matician was not long in residence, and then only be- 

 cause Mr. Drinkald, a great customer for yearlings, to 

 the extent of five or six at a time, begged so hard. 

 He had only two or three mares, but he begot the 

 dam of Lecturer. Cervantes always got a good word, 

 as it was from a mare by him that the brothers Grey 

 Momus and Grey Milton, the 5<DO-guinea yearling and 

 foal, sprang ; and it was his great-grandson which 

 called forth Sir Tatton's reply to congratulations after 

 his win at Doncaster, " Well, sir, it is worth one's while 

 to breed an honest Lawyer" Old Comus filled the 

 paddocks with white-legged chestnuts, which the cross 

 with Camillus changed to grey ; and, like Hampton 

 and Womersley, his blood nicked right well with 

 Sleight-of-Hand. Daniel suited the Hampton mares, 

 but a " Sleight" cross put more substance on his foals. 

 It was something for one man to have bred Grey 

 Momus, The Lawyer, St. Giles, Gaspard, Elcho, 

 Dalby, and Lecturer, to say nothing of several smaller 

 winners ; and he used to observe that if he could 

 never breed a St. Leger winner, he got nearer the 

 Derby each time, with Grey Momus and Black 

 Tommy. His best sale was in 1861, when Brother to 

 Gaspard headed the poll at 500 guineas, and five by 

 Rifleman and Daniel averaged 386 guineas. Some of 

 his sires he thought beyond their market-price, but he 

 invariably sold them and all his horse-flesh remark- 

 ably well. He would only part with the " thin end of 

 the yearling fillies," and thus the sires had little more 

 than half a chance. We often thought, as we looked 

 at those mares, which had never heard the roar of the 

 Stand, or done a day's work in their lives, that per- 

 chance a Queen of Trumps or an Ellerdale might be 

 blushing unseen, and wasting her sweetness in merely 

 throwing fillies to wander on seeds, till they were at 

 matron's estate in their turn. Ellerdale was a mare to 

 whom Sir Tatton always hung, as she seldom failed 

 to run well over York and Doncaster, and hence he 



