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little patient, that he deternilned to try and get him 

 out of Mr. Crowther's hand on the morrow ; but it was 

 only with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Riddell 

 would grant the reprieve, and let him go back with 

 John to Tupgill. 



From a two-year-old, he could never bear whip or 

 spur, and Bob Johnson could always get every ounce 

 out of him by merely stroking and talking to him. He 

 fell in his maiden race as a two-year-old at Catterick, 

 and went down again quite exhaused just beyond the 

 post when Little Driver pressed him hard in his last, 

 which was for the Richmond Cup. His practice 

 during his ten seasons was principally among Gold 

 Cups, and confined to Lancaster, Preston, and Rich- 

 mond. Making running was his forte, and as John 

 Jackson used to say, if any of the others " wanit np 

 till mark, Doctor 'd find cot complaint afoi'e he'd gotten 

 a mile!' Still, like his daughter Beeswing, he did not 

 care to have more than eight-eleven on his back. The 

 Lancashire men ran to meet him, the moment John 

 Lonsdale was seen leading him, year after year, on to 

 the Preston Course, with as much enthusiasm as they 

 were wont in later years to cluster round Cerito on a 

 Waterloo Cup day. He stood at Brompton-on-Swale 

 for a short time along with Whisker and Memnon, 

 while Octavian was at Oran ; but his last five seasons 

 were spent at William Edwards's Newmarket Pad- 

 docks. His stock, the Doctor to wit, were generally 

 somewhat light and shelly. Black Doctor kept up 

 this under-sized family type to the full, in spite of the 

 strains of Lottery and Voltaire, and barring his legs 

 he deserved to become the very Abraham of English 

 cobs. 



Gallopade and Ralph (who had a Beeswin? 

 strong dash of Altisidora) were both good 

 horses ; and Beeswing was the most noted of " Doc- 

 tor's" daughters. This pride of Northumberland, who 

 could hardly make fifteen-two, always ran big, and 



