142 Silk and Sca^'let, 



horses from Malton, eighteen miles, and tried at 

 Hambleton, at noon. The day was especially chosen 

 as being the one after Pontefract races, and before the 

 touts had time to resume their studies. Mr. Petre and 

 Mr. Ridsdale slept at Stapleton over night, and set off 

 with John Scott and their jockeys in two post-chaises 

 and four, first thing in the- morning to Hambleton. 

 All of the party, who dashed thirteen miles an hour 

 up Sutton Bank to meet Izard and his charges, have 

 gone now, save John Scott and Templeman. Bill on 

 the game slow Granby made the running, and was beat 

 a hundred yards ; Sim on the Colonel, who received 

 7lbs. from Velocipede, finished fifty before Granby ; 

 and Mameluke (G. Izard) found that he could not give 

 anything like ^Ibs. and a year to George Nelson and 

 Velocipede. Still the morning's deed did not bear 

 the afternoon's reflection, as the chestnut pulled up 

 lame in the off fore-leg, and his best days were over. 



THE FOREIGN MARKET. 



** 'Mid grim ancestral castles, 

 Where Rhine's dark waters roll, 

 Oft have Gei-man maidens handled 

 Each young Actaeon foal ; 

 And the Russians on their dais, 

 As the wassail bowl they pass, 

 Carouse to Moscow glories 

 Of the colts by General Chasse." 



The Kincr of 1 j^EW Can estimate the intense love of 

 Dude's interpre- X^ the Turf and the Chase which 



ter on Ascot, animates foreigners. Their English 

 trainers have often told us how they have seen them 

 quiver with delight when they translated to them, 

 from " Nimrod," story after story of the hardihood of 

 Jack Mytton ; and that the news of Hobbie Noble's 



