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upon it and broke it, and feeling his head loose at 

 last, went off Hke a gun-shot. Edwards in vain tried 

 to lead him on Sepoy ; but he had no notion of fol- 

 lowing anything, and dashed up the hill right across 

 the Cambridge turnpike into The Links. This was 

 his first essay ; but Robinson gradually brought him 

 under ; and when a few horses had been pulled up, to 

 teach him to leave them on the long hill, he went 

 away from Muezzin, at islbs., in a match, with his 

 ears pricked. He was not a quick beginner, and at 

 half a mile many would have scrambled away from 

 him ; but whatever distance the race or the sweat 

 might be (for they never tried him), Robinson never 

 heard him blow. He was rather short in his back 

 ribs, and weak in his loins ; but his brisket, thighs, and 

 hocks were as good as they could be, and his plump 

 hind-quarters (in which the Cowls follow him), his 

 wicked style of head, and his arched neck, which was 

 so beautifully set in from the withers, may be traced 

 in many of his descendants, especially in the mares. 

 It is a rule which holds good 999 times out of a 

 thousand, that the length of the head multiplied by 

 three gives the length of the horse, and we believe 

 that in Bay Middleton the measure answered exactly. 

 Lord Jersey remarked on the length of his head, when 

 Mr. Herring was painting the bay after the Derby, 

 but — "Yes, my lord, if he hadn't had so long a head 

 you would not have had so long a horse," was the 

 reply. His shoulders were thin, and well laid back, 

 and good ones to correct Touchstone's with. None of 

 his sons really resembled him to our mind, except 

 Ruby, and he only did so when he was drawn quite 

 fine for the Ascot meeting, and then the likeness 

 struck no one more than Lord Jersey himself. 



The old horse was ill all the summer Graves of Bay 

 of '56, and died on November 3rd of the Middleton and 

 following year. His heels had been very Crucifix. 

 bad, and kept in perpetual turnip poultices, and for the 



