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by The Raslier has fine style and stride. Of his half- 

 sister Governess, Channing avers that he never saw 

 her off her feet — a fact which he cannot exactly 

 allege of Glasgow, as in a fast thing from Cranshaw^s 

 " he fell ten yards, ani I fell ten further. '' Garibaldi 

 is a horse of great power, and The E-oan is of four 

 seasons' standing, with a wonderful arm and sub- 

 stance, and like the Marotto mare, a clipper in a 

 close country. For five seasons Channing rode The 

 Pig, but of late he has been more on The Bird, a 

 rare hill horse, as he proved in a day from Copeland 

 gorse over the Cheviots ; and Banker by Chanticleer, 

 who won the East-Lothian steeple-chase, possesses 

 the same faculty. Marden is a very knowing old- 

 fashioned horse by Little Known, and goes back to 

 Rocket and Little Thomas, " the last of the Mohi- 

 cans /^ at least so said Lord John Scott, who knew 

 and loved the sort. 



Jemmy Twitch er, who won seven steeple- chases, 

 has gone, and so has the beautiful grey Pallinsburn,* 

 who was more at home in a stiff country than on the 

 hill, and one of his lordship's best for five seasons. 



Bob Carlyle, who never broke arm or leg till last 

 season, has been with the Earl for thirty-eight years, 

 and is not only photographed beside his lordship and 

 the grey, but appears in Mr^ Gourlay SteelPs pre- 

 sentation hunt picture on Wellesbrook. He can go 

 back to Prince Le Boo, Cannonball, Bob Gibb, and 



* The portrait of this horse arjTDears in the grour) entitled "A Glimpse of 

 Xnockhill, 1864." 



