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Lilias (nde Babel) had won the Oaks, and Translation 

 run second to Gulnare. The Imperial permit in this 

 case was duly signed, and a van and horses hired to 

 take him overland to Warsaw ; but he died of inflam- 

 mation the night before, and Marcus was left alone. 

 At this time Mr. Walkden held the Government com- 

 mission for thirty stallions a year for seven years, and 

 in 1827 Mr. Ashton succeeded him. 

 Old Friends in The history of our exported sires to 

 Rusiiia. Russia is a very chequered one. Mid- 

 dleton and Memnon, the Derby and Leger winners of 

 1825, both went out, the former along with Bir- 

 mingham, who got some leggy but very durable stock. 

 Memnon was much more lucky than Middleton ; and 

 Elliot, the present Richmond trainer, won some of the 

 best prizes with his son Actor, who was bought to get 

 chargers at the Imperial stud. Allegro, by Orvile, was 

 a great success ; but Coronation soon lost caste. The 

 young Squires quite disgraced their great namesake 

 by their softness ; Jereed did not get them with con- 

 stitutions ; Ithuriel died after a two years' sojourn of 

 inflammation, and Uriel was sent for immediately. 

 General Chasse's stock were remarkably stout ; nearly 

 all chestnuts, and with light manes and tails, and 

 those which did not take after him were bad-coloured 

 bays. Several Russian soldiers lost their legs and 

 arms in attendance on him. No Rarey was found in 

 the Avhole Russian dominions to quench him, and all 

 that David Saxby could do was to get hold of the 

 rope, which was always attached to him, by the aid of 

 a shepherd's crook. Wanota was another foreigner 

 who often required hooking ; but he luckily died 

 young, to the great economy of life and limb. Few 

 have been so much liked in Russia as Zanoni, who 

 was a horse of very great style and beauty. He stood 

 at Moscow two years, and his Magnifique out of 

 Mary, by Waterloo, a twenty-seven-year-old mare, 

 found, as the Galanthuses have done more recently, 



