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reinforced by the Cesarewitch or Czarewitch (in 

 1839), and by the Emperor's Plate (from 1845 to 

 1853, in lieu of the Ascot Cup), testified of a ' cordial 

 understanding,' which was doomed to be interrupted 

 by a difference of opinion about the ' Sick Man ' 

 of Turkey, there went, among winners of the 

 Derby, Coronation, Running Rein (afterwards 

 Zanoni, disqualified, to the disgust of his friends, 

 who asked, ' What's the good of winning a Derby 

 when they won't let you have it ?'), Andover, and 

 Caractacus ; and among winners of the St. Leger, 

 the sensational Ebor (stated to have been pur- 

 chased for 500 guineas by the Czar from Mr. 

 W. Barton of Fulford, near York, in 1835, at 

 which time the horse must have been twenty-one 

 years old, having begun life with a cart-mare for 

 foster-dam, and having ' fluked ' the great Black- 

 lock out of the St. Leger of 181 7), and the very 

 notable Van Tromp, together with a long string 

 of more or less distinguished horses, such as Lord 

 Caledon's and Lord Clifden's Wanota (by Simoom), 

 Uriel, Peep-o'-Day Boy, Jereed, and Ithuriel. 



So much for our old friends and customers, whose 

 purchases are noted with the greatest frequency 

 in the earlier volumes of the ' Stud Book ' in the 



