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hind-feet into the air, and was ultimately left at 

 the post, whence he returned to his stable with 

 alacrity) ; who won the One Thousand on Mr. 

 * Howard's ' {alias Mr, Pad wick's, alias ' the 

 Spider's ') Virago ; and who, * tiny ' as he was, 

 is credibly reported to have fallen a victim to the 

 dire necessity of ' wasting,' akin to ' phthisis.' 



John Norman (almost the * sole property ' of the 

 Marquis of Exeter), who won the Two Thousand 

 and the St. Leger on Stockwell, the king of the 

 stud (which alone is enough for fame), and the 

 Oaks on Regalia ; and, after being in the employ- 

 ment of E. Martin, the trainer, died and was 

 buried in Newmarket Cemetery, February 5, 1886. 

 The famous John Day, who became a trainer, and 

 died at the age of sixty-eight in 1883. Henry 

 Constable, who won the Derby on Sefton, and 

 died at the early age of twenty-eight at Epsom, 

 February 16, 1881. Luke Snowden, who died at 

 the youthful age of twenty-two in 1862, having 

 won already the Oaks on Mr. Saxon's Brown 

 Duchess and two St. Legers, one on Mr. Merry's 

 Sunbeam, and the other on Lord Ailesbury's 

 St. Albans, besides being twice second for the 

 St. Leger, with Defender in 1859 and with 



