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downfall was at Haddington^ when he met Mr. 

 Steedman of BoghalFs Lofty. They were led by two 

 brothers, and Glancer^s arrival -was so unexpected 

 that when Lofty^s man heard of it, he soared into 

 the indignant latitudes, locked up his stable and 

 would not show his horse to his brother, and would 

 not in fact speak to him for years. At Aberdeen in 

 ^34 the Clydesdale men had no high opinion of some 

 Lincolnshire horses which had been brought into the 

 neighbourhood, and thought them soft and greasy- 

 legged, and not likely to stand the climate; and in 

 the following year, the damp climate of Ayrshire was 

 given as the reason why the Ayrshire horses, old and 

 young, had bog-spavins and thorough-pins. The 

 judges were divided over the first-prize horse, and 

 the decision was so much canvassed that when one 

 of them who was in the minority gave effect to 

 his dissent at the dinner, and quoted one of his col- 

 leagues in confirmation, he was received with '^ loud 

 and long-continued cheering.^^ 



The greys were in the ascendant at Dumfries in 

 '37 ; bat there was a good struggle between the win- 

 ning one and Mr. Steedman^s black Champion, for 

 which Professor Dick stood out manfully. The grej^ 

 mare had The Peacock at her foot, perhaps the 

 largest foal ever seen in Scotland, and the sire of a 

 very capital stock, many of them greys, in his time. 

 Champion beat everything quite easily at Glasgow 

 the next year ; and no one was more delighted than 

 the Professor, as three or four times he had hobbled 



