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not surprising, for he had been blistered and fired till it 

 would have been difficult to recognize the corky gallant 

 fellow that ran Priam to half a length. St Giles ran a 

 wooden horse ; there had been a good deal said about " how 

 John Day had trained him to death last year," and " how 

 John Scott had improved him," &c., and Mr Kirby made 

 no secret of his intention to take " 't coop" to York, but 

 here again there was a *' slip," — and St Giles, immediately 

 after the race, was sold ; and in the month of September 

 following, sent " over the herring-pond" to Alabama. 



This race having closed the career of another of the 

 Cracks of his day, Beiram, whose name we have lately had 

 so much occasion to introduce in the course of our narrative, 

 we have thought it would be interesting to some, to see "the 

 favourite" of his year, even although he was not quite the 

 " flyer" people thought him. 



Beiram, a chesnut colt, was bred by the Marquis of Exe- 

 ter, in 1829. He was got by Sultan, out of Miss Cantley, 

 by Stamford (sister to Burleigh), out of a Mercury mare, her 

 dam by Herod, out of Young Hag, by Skim. 



The first performances of Beiram, were of such a cha- 

 racter as to induce a general belief that he was a most 

 undeniable clipper — but after figuring for some time as 

 first favourite for the Derby, and high in the odds for the 

 St Leger, Goodwood Cup, and fifty other stakes — he left 

 his friends to " shell out" for their fancies; and wish that 

 they had never touched the " chesnut" which had so sorely 

 burned their fingers. 



