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Andrew was another of Orvlle's sons, and it was 

 to him that Belvoir owed Cadland, its only Derby 

 winner, and through his son Prime Warden came the 

 industrious Clothworker. Sam DarHng ciothworkei 

 claimed him when he had won a Selling 

 Stakes at Shrewsbury, and Mr. Parr offered him fifty 

 pounds for his bargain, but did not get hold of him 

 for some time after. His peculiarity was that he must 

 start last and catch his horses one by one, if there 

 were thirty of them. If any of the rear ones could 

 come again, and clatter up to his girths, he was such 

 a cur that he would never try after. Jockey after 

 jockey begged in vain to be allowed to come through 

 with him, as they knew he was anything but fast ; but 

 his owner never consented, for fear of letting out the 

 secret. Mr. Parr sold him at Stamford for four hun- 

 dred, after Weathergage had made such an example 

 of him, and put the money on his horse for the 

 Goodwood Stakes, at forties to one ; and he was 

 eventually killed on a little race-course in Devonshire, 

 where he had descended, like the once great St. 

 Bennett, among the leather-flappers. 



Orvile's best son, Emilius, inherited Last Days of 

 his plain head, but was not so coarse. Emiiius. 

 He was a muscular, compact horse, with a great chest 

 and arms, on short legs, and peculiarly straight hind 

 ones. Add to this a great middle piece and good 

 back ribs, with h. muscular neck, not too long, and 

 rather inclined to arch. He looked, in fact, quite as 

 much a hunter as a blood-horse ; and some very 

 excellent ones he got too, at Riddlesworth, where 

 latterly he had very few blood-mares at fifty guineas. 

 Mr. Thornhill's executors let him when the Riddles- 

 worth stud was broken up, and he died soon after the 

 close of his first season at Easby Abbey. His stock, 

 after he went North, were all rather small ; and the 

 youngest of them was England's Glory, out of Prairie 

 Bird, though really his last inamorata (for there never 



