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60 gs._, and came back at 6J gs. five years after, very 

 fresh for a dog of ten seasons. 



Black Cloud drove his hare, and kept her to him- 

 self like his daughter Belle of the Village, but he, 

 too, went into a ditch in his second Waterloo course. 

 His greatest performance was beating Mr. RandelPs 

 Ranter in an Altcar Produce Stake. He was a rare 

 turner, and Judge^s pace was never shown to greater 

 advantage than when he just outpaced him down 

 the hill near Carstairs ; but his sister Bright 

 Idea avenged him on the Cumberland red, after 

 two undecided courses. This was in 1855, and 

 Judge had won the Waterloo Cup a month before. 

 Mr. Borron always thought Bright Idea better than 

 either brother, and she was never beaten in public. 

 She only ran twice as a puppy, and was drawn for the 

 fifth course of the Biggar St. Leger of sixty-four in the 

 spring. In her first course the next season she broke 

 her leg over the rocks, and it gangrened, and her 

 sister. Bonfire, died in a wire fence near Biggar. 



