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hands ; and Newton sliowed all the fine old fashion of 

 the Belzoni blood, with arms, shoulders, and hind legs 

 moulded for jumping, but he is a little gone in 

 his back, and is the only one of the lot that had a 

 bar sinister. The Fawn was a light sherry bay, and 

 a little shy about the ears ; and Dandy, a little quality 

 bay, and Undergraduate, an appropriately-named 

 Birdcatcher hack from Simmonds^s of Oxford, stood 

 in the same stable with The Moor. To our eye this 

 dark-brown^ with the game, lean-fleshed head, was 

 the nicest and handiest horse in the stable, not up to 

 the same Aveight as some of them, but looking, as 

 Templeman said of Cossack, " as if yoti could place 

 him anywhere for the asking." Lord Walter^s 

 " Mugger" was by Marotto, and so was Earl Dai- 

 keith^s Garotter, "a right stamp,'^ as Williamson 



Canteen, Scarboro^, Marotto, Wintonian, Oakley, 

 and Valparaiso have all famished their contingents 

 at one time or another to the Buccleuch stable, and 

 the present young stock are principal^ by Leaming- 

 ton, Kingfisher, and Sir John Barleycorn. There 

 are four mares and their produce at Dalkeith ; and 

 " the old old blood" is handed down in Flirt, a nice 

 short-legged daughter of Rosa Mar. Pearlin Jean 

 is there as a remembrance of Cawston paddocks, and 

 Songstress by Birdcatcher, which would have been 

 an annuity to many a Yorkshire shower. In car- 

 riage horses his Grace is steady to bays, as the 

 Earl of Wemyss is to blacks. 



