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four-mile course. To prevent all misconception, 

 Marcia and Haphazard met next year for the same 

 Subscription Plate, and Haphazard won a much 

 slower run race ; Orvile, who was two years their 

 junior, being last. Sir Paul's were of a much stouter 

 stamp, and his son Paulowitz had another stain of 

 Highflyer in the third cross, a mode of breeding 

 which many good judges adopt with nearly every 

 first-class blood except Selim's. Cain was the pro- 

 duce of Paulowitz and a Paynator mare, and through 

 his son Ion and Ellen Middleton, the finest of the 

 Bay Middleton mares, we have the beautifully topped 

 but rather too leggy Wild Dayrell. 



Sir John Shelley bought the clever but ^ 

 cobby- looking Walton when he was 

 beaten for the Craven Stakes by Aniseed, in the year 

 that old Eleanor was third. He was awkward to 

 ride, and Buckle said of him that he was " always on 

 his head for the first mile." His stock had no great 

 character about them ; but although he had only 

 seven mares his first season. Phantom, a winner of 

 the Derby (out of Julia, sister to Eleanor), Vandyke 

 Junior, and Rainbow, who beat Phantom for the 

 Claret Stakes, were among his lucky hits. Bay Mid- 

 dleton, Ishmael, and Voltaire were out of Phantom 

 mares ; and George IV. was latterly as fond of his 

 son Waterloo as he had been in his younger days of 

 the Trumpators and Gohannas. His favourite Maria 

 was by Waterloo ; and trainers used to say of her, 

 that "it would take twice round the Ascot Cup 

 Course, best pace, before she would blow out a rush- 

 light." It was one of the peculiarities of the blood, 

 that it always bred in-and-in very well, and among 

 other instances Cedric, "the little chestnut buggy 

 horse" who won the Derby, and Ivanhoe, who was 

 nearly the best of his year, were both by Phantom 

 out of a Walton mare. Hence many of the best 

 judges at that time began to think that sire to daugh- 



