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the Cambridgeshire and Cesarewitch eighteen months 

 afterwards. 



The Alarms have preserved the staying properties 

 of the family, and a trifle of the temper as well. The 

 point about him which most struck the eye was his 

 wonderful hips, which might belong to a massive 

 steer. Kingston (for whom the Americans offered 

 5300/. in '58), filled out so much, that Ave could hardly 

 catch a trace of the original gay-heart, who used to 

 come dancing, Bay Middleton fashion, into the en- 

 closure with Nat or Bob Basham in the orange, 

 and Harry Stebbings' hand on the rein. Barring 

 Orlando, there was, we think, no stud horse quite 

 so beautiful, nor worthier to woo Virago and Mow- 

 erina. Jockeys were always fond of him, and Job 

 Marson used to say that he was " quite an arm- 

 chair." 



We have heard of horses, one of Mr. cruiser. 

 Mare's, out of Breastgirth, for instance, 

 who left the turf for the Circus ; but we never knew 

 any before Cruiser, whose stock were winning while 

 he was nightly lying down at a word among the saw- 

 dust. Rattlebone, who is out of Wicket, a short- 

 legged Stumps mare, as white in her coat and sweet- 

 looking as the whole of her beautiful race, solved the 

 problem at last. Cruiser's temper did not show itself 

 very much at Danebury. In the Criterion he cer- 

 tainly ran somewhat unkindly, and Rogers, who won 

 on Para, backed him at long shots for the Derby, from 

 feeling sure that he could have done much better if 

 he hked. Still John Day had only to hit him two or 

 three times, when he was with him ; but he suspected 

 enough to give the man who took him to Rawcliffe an 

 ineffectual warning, as to not taking his halter off 

 when he got him into a stable, or, as sure as fate, there 

 would be a mess. At Rawcliffe again, they say that 

 "Argus" must have braced himself for his Post 

 feiiilleton by a series of pork-chop suppers, when he 



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