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winner, but Eryx and Abraham Newland, each, of 

 which was sold for £150 and a .£500 contingency, 

 were third and second for that race. It was only 

 through Young Sam Day^s desperate rush on Mango, 

 in which, at the expense of his own boot-tops, he 

 " split^^ the Doctor and Abraham when they were 

 running locked together twenty yards from home, 

 that the chesnut failed to land it. Next year there 

 was, in one sense, a more memorable finish of 

 three, as '' Abraham,^^ Wee WiUie, and Clem o' the 

 Cleugh, all sons of Kachel, met at Dumfries, and 

 racing past their little birth-place, where their dam 

 was shut up with her foal for the day, finished first 

 second, and third ; and at Manchester in ^37 Wee 

 Willie, Modesty, a very steady enduring mare for 

 heats, and '^ Abraham" won five races between them. 

 For many years Tinwald Downs was the head- 

 quarters of the best blood sires in Dumfriesshire. 

 Monreith by Haphazard, own brother to Filho du 

 Puta, and a strong and flashy dark chesnut, who got 

 some of his stock a little soft, was the first arrival, 

 at a fifty-pound hire, from Sir William Maxwell. His 

 successor was Viscount by Stamford, who got good car- 

 riage horses, hunters, and hacks, and especially good 

 mares. The grey was the St. Leger trial-horse for 

 Filho, and therefore his coming to run at Dumfries, 

 with Croft in charge and young Bill Scott to ride 

 him, marked in Mr. Wilkin^s mind the year 

 1817, when he entered on the Tinwald Downs 

 farm. 



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