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and then Requiem went on with the hare by herself, 

 and had such a severe singlehander, that the hearts 

 of her backers die within them, and any hopes of 

 pulling off 33 to I become a vanishing fraction. Then 

 every eye is on Lobelia as this rare granddaughter of 

 Canaradzo comes out bright and beautiful, and not 



of an hour, and the very next week he won the Waterloo Cup, for 

 which Webb's Flirt ran up. He was "a wandy dog, full of muscle, 

 and his wrenching had always this grand peculiarity, that he did not 

 wrench too harddid not put them too far round, but gave no opening, 

 and kept the game to himself. It was done in the real Eglinton 

 Waterloo style he never wrenched the hare out of his line." 



Shade was a useful steady bitch ; handsome, but with no remarkable 

 pretensions in pace or work. Slater's Sandy ran hares in a dodging 

 sort of a way, but he got well placed for all that. Magician was a 

 racing-like dog, with good speed to his hare ; high on the leg, but with 

 no great wear and tear about him. Hughie Graham's finest race in the 

 Waterloo Cup was with Staymaker. He got very badly away from the 

 slips, and Staymaker led in a most splendid racing stretch. Hughie got 

 up inch by inch, and headed the dog sixty yards from the hare. He 

 gave two or three wrenches, and then turned her into Staymaker's 

 mouth. (" Immense cheering.") Tom Oliver, who won a pony on it, 

 was so delighted, that he threw himself down on the bank, and roared 

 with pleasure, and kicked up his legs "like some one daft." Mr. 

 Temple, true to his usual way of expressing his satisfaction at a very 

 grand course, promptly lay on his stomach, and threw his heels over his 

 back. Hughie had another fine trial with Mocking Bird, in the Water- 

 loo Cup. She had a particularly fine eye to a hare, and when it dis- 

 appeared in a ground hollow, she exactly marked where it would 

 reappear, and gained a length or so, while Hughie ran out a bit. She 

 met two or three wrenches, and then Hughie was busy again, and she 

 killed out of his mouth. " The Bird" wanted a very fast stout hare, as 

 she was not a remarkable worker, and Ebb fairly beat her on this point 

 at Amesbury. " She threw herself at her hare farther off than any 

 greyhound I ever saw." Egypt was a thick, little, short dog, rather 

 like Jacobite. 



Cerito had fine pace, and sense tc correspond; and her heaviest 

 beating at Altcar was when she met Dalton a dog who put in a great 

 deal of work in a little time for the Plate. "As a killer there was 

 nothing like her for safety and science. Her measure was perfection. 

 She would never make a flying kill, but draw herself back and be 

 ready for the turns, and kill them just on the bend or the broadside." 

 Grass was her forte. Waterloo (a bad killer), on the contrary, was all 

 for bare fallows, and went as light as a cork over it. Wicked Eye was 

 a rare drain-jumper ; in fact, she skimmed them in her stride like 

 a swallow, and could always make a couple of lengths at them. Protest 



