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his points. Weatherbit himself was rather h'ght- 

 girthed, and we did not just fancy the setting on of his 

 neck, but his hind-quarters might be moulded from ; 

 and we remember, in fact, nothing in horse-flesh that 

 we ever liked better. 



The sturdy little broad nostrilled TheStotyof 

 Weathergage is as unlike his sire as horse Weathergage. 

 can be. The way in which he came to Benhams is 

 rather curious. Mr. Parr had seen Clothworker done 

 up for the night, and was pondering, cigar in mouth, 

 over his Cup chances, at the little Croxton inn, when 

 Sly arrived, and began saying that such a rare-bred 

 horse from Newmarket had only been beaten a neck 

 for the Selling Stakes at Northampton the week 

 before, and that his trainer had had orders not to take 

 him home. As he gradually unwound the pedigree 

 by Weatherbit out of Miss Letty by Priam, Mr. Parr 

 was all attention ; and finding that Armstrong had 

 claimed and taken him back to the place from whence 

 he came, he wrote to say that he would come and look 

 at him as soon as he got to Newmarket, as he wanted 

 a companion for Bardolph. When he went to his 

 stables, and heard that he only asked sixty guineas for 

 such an apparently sound improving horse, he fully 

 thought The Admiral had found out something wrong, 

 and would not close with the offer till he had seen him 

 canter on the Lime Kilns hill. Mizen took him out 

 for exercise the first time, and complained " that his 

 joints snocks ;" but all that was forgotten when, with 

 two stone more on, he made such an example of Bar- 

 dolph and Wells, in their gallop the next day, that 

 Mr. Parr, who was on Selina, was fain to roar to them 

 to pull up before they got among the crowd near the 

 Duke's stand. " Tiny" might well say to Mr. Parr, in 

 the stable that evening, that he " could win the New- 

 market Handicap far enough if I was on that one," 

 pointing to the stall of the once despised bay. 



Bardolph's defeat did not trouble Mr. Parr much, as 



