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looxardo'^ (a very clierished combination of syllables 

 in Mr. CampbelFs eyes), produced c€100 and £120 

 respectively. Then there was Coorooran ^50, and 

 Ciologa £85, or £355 for one litter, and one of them 

 with a broken leg ! Coursers shrugged their shoulders 

 when Mr. Campbell stuck to it that he had a better 

 at Home than either Sea Pink or Sea Foam, which 

 he sold to Mr. Spinks after they had been defeated at 

 Biggar, and had divided two Puppy Stakes at Aber- 

 gele. It was, however, a true bill, and unbelievers 

 began to think so when they saw Ciologa win the 

 Vernon Cup and gold watch, and her brother, Coo- 

 rooran, the sole companion of her journey from Dal- 

 gig to Derbyshire, follow suit with the Sudbury 

 Stakes as well. Of course she was jealously kept for 

 the Waterloo Cup, and Mr. Spinks offered £200 in 

 vain. Three hundred would not have tempted '^old 

 Dalgig^' to forego what he considered an all but 

 Waterloo certainty, after seeing her beat Coorooran 

 in a trial. She was very smooth in her style, and 

 almost as great a favourite with Mr. Warwick as 

 Kiot was with Mr. M*^George. 



The Beacon litter No. 3 included Dixie, who was 

 presented to Mr. Dun] op, and won the Biggar St. 

 Leger, and Great Gun (both of them brindles), 

 Caroola, Jessie the Flower of Dunblane, Coodareena, 

 and Carabradzo (another composition triumph). Ca- 

 roola, a white with blue spots, had quite a tragical 

 end, as she broke her neck in her Waterloo trial 

 course over Kirkconnel^ where she had shown herself 



