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able the results of the raid, there can be no 

 doubt of the good stuff they are made of. 

 How well I remember " Sir J.," as we called 

 Sir John Willoughby, riding against Mr. 

 George Lambton in the Barton Drag, and 

 both coming down, and Sir J.'s horse get- 

 ting up and putting his foot on his 

 master's face, much to the detriment of 

 his features. Many a good rider in the 

 silk has learned his first lesson with the 

 Drag, and George Lambton was one. He 

 used to ride a young bay thoroughbred, 

 Julian, which had been scratched for the 

 Derby, and, with all the glorious pride 

 and confidence of youth, used to send him 

 along at five furlongs pace over, or rather 

 through, the Cambridgeshire gates, not one 

 of which I ever saw him clear ! Not one 



