g6 Silk and Scarlet. 



namesake to scale, gives Bill Scott for the last time 

 that handshake of victory which was to be proudly 

 felt by many a jockey, year after year, at Doncaster, 

 but by him no more. 



The Hero and young Alfred Day contribute not a 

 few to the thickening honours of the Danebury stable. 

 Lanercost achieves early stud laurels not inferior to 

 Reveller and Pot-8-os ; " B. Green" is great for one 

 short season, and becomes a dissolving view ; and 

 Surplice — the very month that his late owner, after all 

 his proud political and turf imaginings, is found stark 

 and rigid amid the night dews of his own father's 

 Flood Meadow — gives the cue to three others to break 

 the double spell. Then arises the />/r^;'^ about Nancy. 

 Teddington and West Australian — one of them hardly 

 in bloom, and the other born the very year Velocipede 

 died — become giants in the land. Mr. Parr discovers 

 the great Arabian Night secret of turning old lamps 

 into new ; and in proof thereof, after smashing " The 

 Squire's" .last hope of a St. Leger with Saucebox, 

 twice over sends up the listhouse shutters with Wea- 

 thergage ; and then the rivalry of the Voltigeur and 

 Dutchman stock is as keenly looked for as when their 

 sires went out to do battle for Aske and Middleham, 

 in days which, for hearty racing excitement, their 

 county will scarcely know again. Yorkshiremen talk 

 of them yet on the burning rock of Gibraltar or the 

 side of the Great Salt Lake. Well might a traveller 

 write of a little tailor who had wandered westward : 

 " Mormonism was the creed of his last year or two, 

 but Doncaster Races the creed of his whole life ; 

 Brigham Young, in his eyes, less than the owner of the 

 St. Leger winner. He had seen every St. Leger since 

 he was five years old, and could recount the names of 

 all the winners. He would do a job five per cent, 

 cheaper for me than for any one else, because I had 

 seen Voltigeur run the dead heat ; and had I only 

 seen the Dutchman beaten for the Cup on Friday, I 



