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more, at forties and fifties to one. It was not decided 

 until two o'clock in the afternoon, that Wells, and not 

 Clements, who rode in the trial, was to have the St. 

 Leger mount, and the orders were simply, " Dont be 

 second I draw back to the last at the foot of the hill if 

 the pace is goody and then come on the outside^ halfway 

 up the distance. Lady Tatton could not make a pace, 

 and therefore the result was achieved in a different 

 way; but the running of her ladyship proved that 

 Rifleman was far below his York form. After Don- 

 caster, Saucebox was never so good again, and his leg 

 filled so much when he had won the Old Berkshire 

 Hunt Stake at Abingdon, next year, that they dare 

 not train him on, and sold him to the French Govern- 

 ment for 550/. Such were the varied fortunes of " the 

 little cade-lamb" of Hambleton. 



The Descendants After this little Tomboy episode we 

 ofComus. must hie back once more to Sorcerer, 

 and follow his blood, which, thanks to a strong cor- 

 rective in the shape of a Sir Peter cross, has flourished 

 for some fifty years in the Comus line. 



Comus '^^^^ chestnut, who belonged to Mr. 



Kit Wilson, of Ledstone Hall, and was 

 marked all over with white and black spots, was 

 rather a grand and even horse, and ran third for the 

 Derby. He went bHnd from a fever ; and it is rather 

 remarkable that Sorcerer and Phantom, also left Sir 

 John Shelley's stable in the same plight. His eyes 

 were as white as eggs, but although Sir Tatton Sykes 

 used him freely for six seasons, until he was rising 

 eight-and-twenty, he only got him one blind foal. He 

 filled the Sledmere pastures with dozens of white- 

 legged chestnuts ; but Sir Tatton never had anything 

 by him nearly so perfect as Grey Momus. Mr. Bowe 

 gave five hundred for the grey, as a yearling, with a 

 contingency of fifty for his first win ; and he was so 

 much liked at Danebury, that even when his brother 

 Grey Milton was only a ifoal, they wanted to make a 



