1 70 Silk and Scarlet. 



bred, was by far the lengthiest foal we ever handled, 

 but her growth took a different turn. Cannobie, who 

 was out of a short little Hornsea mare, inherited his 

 fine length, and so did Oakball, Canezou, and Tas- 

 mania. This characteristic was invariably to be found 

 in his stayers, but his blood hit best for speed when 

 he got them rather short. Prime Minister, for instance, 

 was a flyer, in the days when five thousand would not 

 tempt Mr. Halford to resign his hopes at " The 

 Isthmian Games;" Blink Bonny from the peculiar 

 droop in her quarters always looked as if she had 

 been cut short, and Brocket had not quite enough 

 length for his general frame. Montenegro is the last 

 foal that can be traced to him, and as it was led out 

 on the Royal Sale day, and fell for 610 guineas to 

 Admiral Rous's nod, we thought that there had seldom 

 been a nobler close to a great stud career. 



The knob in this colt's^roat was only the effects of 

 the Hampton Court water ; but still it was not nearly 

 so marked as Wrestler's two years before. By some 

 mysterious law of nature, the Hampton knobs form 

 just under the jowl, and unlike Miss Letty's celebrated 

 one, they do not prove perpetual, but gradually move 

 down, till they merge in the chest. Melbourne him- 

 self shared the fate of Lord Brougham, who had his 

 necrology published in some of the daily papers so far 

 back as '37, when he was reported as killed from his 

 carriage near Penrith. They had decided to shoot the 

 old horse in February, and promised one of his legs 

 for a keepsake to go into Lincolnshire ; but he rallied, 

 and got a reprieve till May 4th. Long before he 

 failed, he had done quite enough for his fame, or else 

 his scores of winners, beginning with Sir Tatton Sykes 

 at Newmarket, speak through the pages of Weatherby 

 in vain. 



