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"been dead for some years,, but his name endures with 

 the Dumfriesshire Hunt. The grass here is three 

 weeks later than it is at Sheffield Lane; but the few 

 yearlings that go up to join the "Lane lot" at Don- 

 caster can hold their own in the average. Old 

 Nugget by Melbourne is in residence, and she sent 

 up Emigrant (410 gs.) last year; and Vagary byVol- 

 tigeur and Jungfrau roam in the holme by the Annan 

 side with their foals. The Derby was denied to An- 

 nandale, horse and district;, as the St. Leger was to 

 Nithsdale with Abraham Newland, and in both in- 

 stances by South Country riders and outsiders. Old 

 Annandale looked well, but his back was beginning 

 to sink beneath the burden of three-and-twenty sum- 

 mers. Still, that tough old boy " Terrona" looked at 

 his grand ends when he met Defiance at Lockerby 

 that spring for the J40 Hunt Prize. In vain did his 

 colleagues on the bench ask him to let it be a unani- 

 mous decision in favour of the younger bay; but 

 '^ Unanimous ! no, never /" was all they could extract 

 from such an emphatic Andrew Marvel. This was 

 the third year of the struggle, and Houlakin and The 

 Era had won it before, and in his turn Defiance has 

 had to yield to a younger horse, Warmanby by 

 Mountain Deer. Mr. Andrew Johnstone loved An- 

 nandale next to Touchstone, and felt sure at one 

 time, that whenever the old horse died, his blood 

 combined with that of Alice Hawthorne^s dam must 

 bring his son to the front. With Clydesdale it once 

 seemed as if it was to be, but his legs gave way 



