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dered him a far truer type of a ('lydesdale than 

 the grey. 



It was grey again at Inverness in ^56^ when 'Mr. 

 Wilson showed Comet, and brought him to the 

 show, not sheeted and by easy Avalking stages, but at 

 a good swinging trot in his dog-cart iovty miles from 

 Durne. Since then he has won the gold cup three 

 years in succession at Aberdeen, where in ^58 an 

 '^oversman^^ was called in to decide betv/een Black Lea' 

 and a grey. The bay was quite one of the Loudon 

 Tam stamp, and no one could crab him, ex- 

 cept to say that '^ his leg^s painied.^' Next year Mr. 

 Steedman offered £400 for him, and he finally went 

 to Melbourne, it vras said, for another .€100. The 

 leaders both of the young and old ranks were re- 

 markable at Dumfries in '60. Sir Walter Scott and 

 his second exactly foreshadowed their Battersea 

 places ; and most of the younger horses left the 

 country at about €300. At Battersea the young 

 horses were bad, and the mares, of which four out of 

 the first five were Mr. Stirling's of Kcir, a remarkable 

 lot. It was quite a Hamilton Palace year at Stir- 

 ling, as the stud won three firsts, two seconds, and a 

 third, against a strong competition ; and the very 

 clever first-prize mare in-foal had the first Sir Walter 

 Scott of his Grace^s breeding by her side. Still, 

 Stirling, where Mr. Kcir^s Peggy was such a bay 

 belle, had the best show of Clydesdale mares ever 

 seen in Scotland; and "'Boghall,'^ who is quite the 

 walking Peerage of the breed, was so smitten that he 



