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look in vain for old Will Warner, but we are told that 

 he has " turned it up." The crowd thickens fast, and 

 as far as the eye can reach towards Formby, they 

 come steadily tramping on. The vehicles alone seem 

 to stretch for more than half a mile in the line of 

 march, and half of them are in the commissariat 

 service, and laden with pies, and cheese, and liquors. 

 Many visitors carry their own little polished drink 

 barrel slung across their shoulders, and those who 

 have the office look out, when luncheon time is nigh, 

 for the hospitable red flag with the white star in the 

 centre, which flies as a token at the top of a private 

 omnibus from Lytham. Half the point of the meet 

 at Northend was lost this year by the absence of the 

 house party from Croxteth, and we might well long 

 to see the four dark chestnuts dash up in the green 

 drag as of yore, with the Earl on the box. It seems 

 but the other day that his father was riding off 

 across country to Croxtfcth, to tell of his Sackcloth's 

 victory. 



The march of the cracks round and round the farm 

 paddock is one of the most beautiful sights. We 

 have noted there before the first couple were called, 

 and the hare-boys (looking like tortoises erect) started 

 on their march the shining brindle of Streamer, the 

 dark black of the great bitch corps Spider, old Belle 

 of the Village, Rebe, and Reliance ; the blue of 

 Coodareena ; the fawn of Sea Rock ; the red of 

 Monarch and Sea Girl ; while the brindle on the tail 

 deftly told the difference between the flying whites 

 of Liverpool, Mr. Spinks's Sea Pink and Sea Foam.* 



* It may not be amiss to run over a few of the principal winners from 

 Sultan's day. Oscar, British Lion, Gilbertfield, Barrator, Waterloo, 

 Canaradzo, Scotland Yet, Ciologa, Neville, Sam, Canopy, Jacobite, 

 Cardinal York and Picton, Bold Enterprise, Blue Light, Black Cloud, 

 Border Union, Matilda Gillespie, Motley, Tollwife, Ladylike, The 

 Baron, Selby, Clive, Monarch, Mercury, Hughie Graham, and King 

 Lear, &c., have all been touched upon in volume "South" of "Field 



