SOME EARLY VICTORIAN OWNERS. 



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locked together in a desperate struggle for the lead. The younger gave out 

 first, and Voltigeiir was beaten by a short length. 



On the great staircase at 

 Aske there hung long after- 

 wards Sir Edwin Landseer's 

 painting of Lord Zetland's 

 favourite, as large as life, with 

 his head down, whispering 

 soft greetings to his friend the 

 cat. At the Horse and Hound 

 Show at Middlesborough in 

 1860, from the best class ever 

 got together in a show-yard, 

 he won the ^"100 prize as 

 being " the best calculated to 

 improve and perpetuate the 

 breed of the sound and stout 

 thoroughbred horse." The 

 judges knew their business. 

 His son Vedette was the last 

 horse Job Marson rode in 

 public, and from that mighty 

 line have sprung the best sires 

 of the modern Turf. 



The Flying Dutchman re- 

 tired from the Turf after that 

 glorious contest with all his 

 honours thick upon him, and 

 with this last victory Lord 

 Eglinton touched the high 



of his racing 



not long after- 

 wards he sold his stud to Sir 



John Errington. He died at fifty, of a sudden stroke of apoplexy, and in the 

 zenith of his bright existence there can scarcely have been a man more beloved 



water-mark 

 career, and 



By permission of H.R.H. Prince Christian. 



George Payne, M.F.tf. 



