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it was said, 'all Newmarket belonged'); the 

 therewith closely connected ' Chetwynd-Durham 

 case ' (which led to the retirement of a member, 

 who had been a steward, from the Jockey Club) ; 

 the sad death, by his own hand, of the horse- 

 breeding Mr. Hume Webster, who would fain 

 have mended his fortunes by the aid of Ormonde ; 

 the uproar created by the sale of that illustrious 

 'roarer,' an unbeaten horse (for he never raced, 

 as was incorrectly reported of him, in the land of 

 his importation) and wearer of the 'triple crown,' 

 but very wisely sold for ^12,000 to Sefior Boucau 

 by the Duke of Westminster, to the advantage, 

 most probably, of English thoroughbreds ; the 

 unpleasantness attending the sporting match be- 

 tween Colonel North's Nunthorpe and Lord 

 Rosslyn's Buccaneer, when 'each spake words of 

 high disdain,' and one hinted very broadly at 

 ' sharp practice ' on the part of the other ; and, to 

 omit the remaining score or two, the melancholy 

 misfortune of Professor Loeffler, and the mystery, 

 not yet cleared up and not altogether unconnected, 

 no doubt, with that melancholy misfortune, of the 

 Orme that was to have surpassed his unsur- 

 passable sire. 



