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great glee how The Church had been touting him 

 through the hedge, and, httle thinking that the very 

 man sat right opposite him, asked the lady of the 

 house, " Who is this parson "^^ * * ?" 



The Selim and Defence blood suited &„^^_r 



1 1- 1 Andover. 



well m Andover, who only wanted a little 

 closer ribbing up to make him look the workman he 

 was. Still he was a very nice topped horse, and it 

 was quite a treat to get a bird's-eye view of him from 

 a grand stand. His stock disappointed us, as they 

 had his failure of back-rib, which was aggravated by 

 their length, and lacked general style and quality. 

 He had also a strong dash of eccentricity at times ; 

 and was once extracted by Snarry from the chimney 

 of an old brewhouse, up which he had made a well- 

 meant effort to become a climbing-boy. 



As to the infancy of Bay Middleton's The Flying 

 other Derby winning son, the Flying Dutchman. 

 Dutchman, we know very little, except that he was 

 born on Feb. 27th, " He was ahvays a good doer',' 

 said his early guardian, Coverdale, to us, as we 

 strolled out from Redcar to leave a card on Barbelle ; 

 ''^ but as for Van, I 7iever coidd ghttion him. Ziiydcr 

 Zee,' he added, " / conld frighten into a monse-hole, but 

 he got master of the mail somehoiv on his road to Fo- 

 bert's." Old Barbelle herself had been sent to Ashgill, 

 who had been sold not long before at an auction for 

 40/. ; and within a few minutes of our visit she had 

 been separated from her Pottinger filly, and the two 

 were indulging in a succession of answering cheers. 

 She was standing, after her bereavement, in a cart- 

 stable, separated by a rail from a black pony ; and as 

 she looked more of the light-necked, drooping quar- 

 tered hack than the brood mare, we could hardly have 

 thought that such virtue as three " thousand guinea 

 yearlings," two of them St. Leger winners, had come 

 out of her. Her head is rather plain and long, but 

 there is nothing particular to find fault with her feet, 



