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had the sweetest head in the world. Her hips and 

 ribs were capital ; but still she was rather light-boned, 

 which might have been owing, in a measure, to her not 

 having been kept very well as a foal. With all his 

 varied lore, Mn Orde had not gleaned that bone and 

 muscle must originally go in at the mouth, and hence 

 he did not, from a notion that it would make her too 

 gross, allow her corn till she was a pretty well ad- 

 vanced yearling. She never hit except to Touchstone, 

 who did not seem the horse to correct her somewhat 

 upright shoulders, and Nunnykirk and Newminster, 

 the best of her sons, were both beautiful movers. The 

 walk from Warrington to Chester in her sixth visit to 

 Touchstone was too much for her, and she fairly tot- 

 tered into her box at th- Eaton Paddocks, on the 

 evening of the second day. After that, she only got 

 up once, to take a little gruel, and then died, quite 

 worn out with fatigue, and the weight of a brown 

 Dutchman colt, which was not due for two months. 

 There was no mark of violence upon her, but the flesh 

 came away in flakes from the backbone, as if from a 

 thing too long kept, and her mane was sent as a relic 

 by post to Mr. Orde. 

 Interview with ^^^^ ""^^^ ^ most trcmeudous kicker in 

 Bob Johnson her Stall, wliich was indented five feet 

 about Ascot. fj-Q^i the ground ; but she showed no 

 vice at the post, and beyond pulling hard at first, she 

 was a delightful mare to ride. The sprightly style in 

 which she led her horses round the Stand turn in the 

 Cup, hugging the rails so as not to throw one inch of 

 ground away, was one of our earliest and pleasantest 

 recollections of Doncaster, and it was after she had 

 given The Shadow a hopeless stern chase in 1841, that 

 Mr. Orde resting his hand on the betting-room table, 

 had again returned thanks for her, and repeated for 

 the hundredth time " 7;y/ 77ia7'e is the property of the 

 people of NortJmmberland^' that his most memorable 

 scene came off with Bob Johnson. Everybody pressed 



