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his masterly hand in Charles XII., Beeswing, the 

 Arabs, Elei^poo, Minuet, and Telemachus, a very 

 neatly-mouided horse, and all shot with grey hairs. 

 The mare with her sweet form and light hlood-like 

 neck carries her ears well forward, while the mighty 

 Charleses are screwed back as if he would like right 

 well to have a nip at somebody. Amid all his re- 

 verses when his back had become quite hollow and 

 his tail was cut, he retained some faded notions of 

 royalty, and he would not pass through Balby toll- 

 gates, the southern portal to the scene of his St. 

 Leger, and Cup victory against Lanercost, Beeswing, 

 and Compensation, till both the gates were opened. 

 When he got there, Tom Dawson, who had trained 

 him when he left John Scott^s, did not know him in 

 the sale ring, and, although he was the sire of some 

 capital hunters, no one would venture on him at 

 ^^ a pony.^^ He went to Ireland after that, and was 

 eventually put down at Sheffield, when quite a shadow 

 of his old self, and a carving-knife and fork were 

 made from his cannon bones. 



Mr. Andrew Johnstone began breeding at Hall- 

 heaths with Theresa Panza by Wagtail, Proserpine by 

 Ehadamanthus, Marchioness by Velocipede, Morsel 

 by Mulatto (the dam of The Cure), and Grimston by 

 Verulam, and eventually a Goodwood Cup winner, 

 was the first foal he bred. For a time he stuck to 

 Verulam, a fine crested horse, who spread many rich, 

 bold-fencing bays over the Yorkshire hunting fields. 

 He commenced training with Kalph Scott from Tom 



