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for which Mr. Hordern, of Sydney, is said to have 

 refused ^20,000), and the mare Atlantis (so 

 famous as a two-year-old) by Thormanby. So 

 that we may expect to see Australia some day 

 carrying everything before her on the turf of the 

 'Old Country.' 



To the Cape have gone a number of horses, of 

 which not the least remarkable was Brian Boru 

 (foaled i860, by Gemma di Vergy and Wild Irish 

 Girl), because it is recorded of him that ' he was 

 a bad "roarer" when he left England, but re- 

 covered at the Cape and ran well there ;' but Mr. 

 W. Day, who ought to know, as he was the 

 trainer of the mare, vouches for the occurrence, 

 even in England, of a similar recovery in the case 

 of Sir E. Johnstone's famous mare Brigantine 

 (winner of the Oaks and Ascot Cup in 1869), as 

 well as in the case of the celebrated Mr. Osbaldes- 

 ton's The Devil among the Tailors. Thither, too, 

 went another ' roarer,' Mr. Merry's famous Bella- 

 drum (by Stockwell), but whether he recovered 

 or not cannot be stated, and thither went Mr. 

 Merry's excellent horse The Student (by Oxford). 



To China, where he died, went in the very year, 

 1863, in which he ran his historic dead heat with 



