1 78 Silk and Scarlet, 



Nesham Hall, and save and except Watchdog, in a race 

 at Salisbury in 1858, and the colt who was seized with 

 a panic from the salute of a vessel as it crossed the 

 Mersey to Lucas's, we remember no case more sudden. 

 The first eye seemed to go in a day ; the pupil was as 

 red as beef in the morning, and then the lid and the 

 ball wasted to half their size, and the fellow one fol- 

 lov/ed suit in ten days. He was always rather a 

 curious and fitful getter, as regards size, though he 

 seldom failed to give them a fine turn of speed, and a 

 disHke to a distance. His colts were generally too 

 big, and unable to stand strong preparations, but his 

 fillies very nearly won three Oaks in succession. Like 

 Bay Middleton, he was essentially a filly getter, and 

 they are now exceedingly valuable. 



_^ . A gamer or more gentlemanly little 



horse than Venison never cantered down 

 the cords ; and cross him as you chose, nearly all his 

 stock came small with grey hairs in their coat, a taper- 

 ing head, and a beautiful deer-like eye. This lack oi 

 size came through his grandam Jerboa, of the Go- 

 hanna blood. He was rather a lurching long-actioned 

 goer himself, and wanted a great deal of assistance. 

 His turf finish was right worthy of him. He carried 

 9st. 61b. at Stockbridge, and broke down about three- 

 quarters of a mile from home ; but he only faltered for 

 about twenty yards, and, thanks to the careful nursing 

 of young John Day, finished the last of the four, with 

 his head at the winner's girths. The blood hit well 

 with that of Emilius, both in Fallow Buck and Buck- 

 thorn ; but handsome and true as the latter was, both 

 in shape and running, the old temper showed itself, 

 and they were not sorry to get rid of him at Eaton, 

 though Backbiter was a poor enough substitute. No 

 owner need despair of a colt fining down in his points, 

 if they remember what a "dangerous countryman" 

 Rattle by Fallow Buck looked on the Derby day, and 

 what a handsome hero he was when he ran second for 



