340 FIELD AND FERN. 



and only once on the TinAYald Downs course during 

 the running. This was when Bob Johnson had that 

 terrible tumble off Saucebox, after which he was 

 never quite the same man. Mr. Wilkin ran to the 

 house for a brandy bottle, and then galloped up the 

 road and through the gates to him. He was lying 

 helpless and fainting in the middle of such a dense 

 ring, that the bottle had to be passed over their heads. 

 It fell into the hands of a thirsty cobbler, who could 

 not resist " a wee drappie,^"* and took a most pro- 

 tracted sack at it before he could be made to pass it 

 on to poor Bob. 



lianercost was fond of this course, but, for very 

 good reasons, he and St. ^lartin did not meddle with 

 each other either in the Buccleuch Plate or the Cup."^'" 

 Next autumn he accommodated St. Bennett and 

 Malvolio separately, and in 1840 he took a terrible 

 revenge on Charles XII. for his Doncaster Cup 

 defeat. " Charles'' then talked over for and 

 won the Cup, and with this double Goodwood Cup 

 winner that race died out. The Caledonian Hunt 

 Meeting was last held here in ^44, Avhen Alice Haw- 

 thorn and Brevity won nearly everything. Next 

 year Mr. Merry swept all save the portion of The 

 Shadow, and in ^46 there were only a dozen horses. 

 Then it sank down to six horses and one day ; and 

 old Annandale was second for the handicap to Marian 

 Ramsay^ who also won the last race, a Give-and- 



* See " Scott and Sebright," p. 188. 



