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amongst other races, the Cumberland Plate 

 and several Queen's Plates. She was second 

 to Nancy, giving her 2 st. for the Ebor 

 Handicap; and beat Prime Minister, weight 

 for age, in the County Plate T.Y.C. on 

 the Knavesmire the same afternoon. Oxford 

 Blue and The Alp that same season were winners 

 for us. In 1852 we had a rather good year. 

 Exact and Lambton were the crack two-year- 

 olds, and Audubon was to the fore. Exact won 

 a number of races, and Lambton seven or eight. 

 My father bought both of them as yearlings from 

 Lord Durham. Exact was .a Birdcatcher, out of 

 Equation (sister to Euclid), by Ennui out of 

 Mary, by Whisker. Lambton was by The Cure 

 out of Elphine by Emilius. Elphine was sister to 

 Pompey (dam of Warlock), and I fancy also the 

 dam of The Wizard. Mr. Anthony Nichol, a 

 Newcastle chemist, bought both Warlock and 

 The Wizard from Lord Durham. 



" My father just missed Warlock ; he always 

 said he ought to have had him. He had been at 

 Newcastle races and had to call at Lord 

 Durham's place at Fence Houses on the way 

 home to look at the yearlings. He missed his 

 way somehow, and did not touch the station at 

 Fence Houses. Had he seen Warlock, I have 

 no doubt he would have bought him. As it was, 

 Mr. Nichol was the lucky man. Merry Bird 

 by Birdcatcher, was a smart two-year-old 

 this season, which Lady Agnes, by Bird- 

 catcher out of Agnes by Clarion, finished up well 

 for us by winning the Nursery at Newmarket; 

 Merry Bird being second to her. Lady Agnes, 



