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Doncaster Spring, following that up by brackets 

 at Catterick and Croxton Park. At the latter 

 place he got a chill and went amiss, not being 

 quite recovered when he was beaten at Man- 

 chester and Chester. Once he got on to his legs, 

 Saunterer was a horse of great speed, but he 

 was not a quick beginner, and it was through 

 his starting so slowly that he was beaten at 

 Newton. It was in this year that we sold York- 

 shire Grey, then a two-year-old, to go to Italy. 

 He was brought back again to England, Mr. 

 Richard Boyce training him. I rode in that year 

 Bird in the Hand, by Birdcatcher, owned by Mr. 

 Cookson. She had previously beaten Ellington 

 in the Dee Stakes, but he reversed the running 

 at Epsom when he won the Derby. Ellington 

 was a horse of nice speed ; in fact, he didn't stand 

 training long. 



" I took Saunterer over to France myself in 

 '57, when he was second to Fisherman. He then 

 belonged to John Jackson, who bought him 

 from my father for 1200 guineas. Jackson sold 

 him afterwards to Mr. Merry for 2500 guineas, 

 and for him he won the Goodwood Cup, the 

 ' Fitzwilliam ' at Doncaster, and the Prix de 

 I'Empereur at Paris in '58, when he was a 

 four-year-old. He was in my father's stud as a 

 two-year-old. Altogether I rode four times in 

 the Prix de I'Empereur, being second on Saun- 

 terer to Fisherman in '57, and won with him in 

 '58, beating Mademoiselle Chant and Zouave, 

 both belonging to Count Lagrange. It was a 

 good stake then for English horses. 



" Saunterer went amiss before the Derby of 



