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Arthur Brlggs emerge, with the pretty Underhand 

 second in their string, from that httle glen on the 

 right, where Jack Spigot died, and from which 80,000/. 

 in ten years flowed into the Eghnton exchequer. If 

 " Kitty Brown" had only been in the Middieham 

 flesh, what rich Spigot Lodge legends he Trials. 

 could have poured forth, the result of observation 

 even more intense than a Chaldaean astrologer's. It 

 is our fate, however, to learn the old Eglinton measures 

 that morning from far more reliable lips. It seems 

 that they were on this wise. At two-years-old, Van 

 Tromp not only beat Eryx at 3 5 lbs. for half-a-mile, 

 but gave Plaudit, who ran second both for the Cup 

 and the Derby Handicap, at Liverpool next week, an 

 honest lolbs. into the bargain. Next season the mare 

 and the yearling Dutchman were put together for half- 

 a-mile at evens, and the flyer won. Defeat, however, 

 awaited him in his turn, as his half-brother, Mavors, 

 went two lengths away from him at weight for age, 

 Knight of Avenel third ; and Lord Eglinton, Sir 

 David Baird, and Captain Pettat, came down from the 

 High Moor that day, with the firm belief that the 

 Derby was over. Alas ! for all human calcula- 

 tions ! Exactly a week and a day before the Derby, 

 he was found to have a leg, and the back sinew gave 

 way as he flew the road near Tattenham Corner. It 

 was here, too, that Saunterer proved himself at least 

 two stone better than Augury ; and that Ellington on 

 the Thursday before the Derby, gave Gaudy, Pan- 

 mure, and Preston fully that each, and not only led 

 from end to end in a mile and three-quarters gallop, 

 but choked them ofl" by some seventy yards. Well 

 might Tom Dawson write up to London to take 

 5000/. to 200/. more about him for Epsom ; and 

 stand out 1500/, to 500/. about him for the Leger, 

 when he had again seen him cut Panmure to ribbons, 

 at 3st., within only six days of his Doncaster down- 

 fall. 



