2 lo Silk and Scarlet, 



thighs to her hocks ; but on her visit to Eglinton Park, 

 to run for Lord Glasgow's Three Hundred Sovereigns 

 Plate, she nearly lost the use of those and every other 

 limb, by being thirteen hours in her railway box. To 

 make matters worse, when she arrived in Edinburgh, 

 it was nearly one in the morning and there was no 

 stable to be had ; and if an enthusiastic Scot had not 

 met the luckless trio, and vowed, the moment he 

 heard the name, that if he hadn't had a vacant stall, 

 she should have gone into his best parlour all night, 

 she would have passed the night in the street, along 

 with old Job and his son Frank. Luckily, she grew 

 better with rest ; and although her action was so very 

 short on the morning of the race, that the visitors at 

 Eglinton Castle made it a certainty for her half- 

 brother Hippolytus, careful riding and the 3lb. allow- 

 ance just got her through. Her great peculiarity, to 

 our eye, was the peculiarly graceful droop of her 

 quarters, in which Saunterer a good deal resembles 

 her. However, until we espied Troy, or rather Grand 

 Mistress, in the sale ring at Doncaster, in 1858, we 

 never met with anything that reminded us of her as a 

 whole. Nancy was difficult to train, and furnished 

 another proof that when mares can once be got into 

 form they are more effective than horses, but that, 

 while the latter will often get back their form, mares 

 when they have once lost it, hardly ever will. 

 Hambletonian. ...Leaving the Beningboro' branch of 

 Kmg Fergus s succession, we come to the 

 Hambletonian one. This mighty bay was out of a 

 Highflyer mare, and he and his opponent Diamond 

 were, on the sire's skie, two degrees from Eclipse and 

 two from Herod respectively. It was the saying of 

 the day, that the Eclipses were speedy and jady, and 

 the Herods hard and stout ; and there was a talk of 

 matching the two over again at Bibury, 500 guineas 

 a-side at eight stone each ; Mr. Delme Radcliffe to 

 ride Hambletonian, and Lord Sackville, Diamond- It 



