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eventually ended in nothing, and Diamond was made 

 quite a lion of in Dublin, when he passed through it, 

 to his new home, while Hambletonian's paddocks at 

 Middleham became the most fashionable in the North. 

 Shuttle and Hambletonian, both of them Sir Harry- 

 Vane Tempest's, were the re together, but the Shuttles 

 had such vile tempers that {qw cared to use him. 

 Hambletonian did not get size so much as speed, and 

 his stock were principally browns. He was a fine and 

 lengthy, but rather a blotchy-skinned horse, a trait 

 which both Stubbs and Sartorius have brought out in 

 their pictures of him. 



Camillus and Whitelock were his ^ .„ 



1 • 1 n/r /^ r 1 1 Camillus. 



choicest sons, and Mr. Lrariortn made a 



most unlooked for hit with the former, who was half- 

 brother to his Marcia and Marciana. He was a grey 

 horse, from a chestnut strain, and became quite white 

 rather early. His make and quality were very fine, 

 and he got many very good grey and chestnut hunters 

 when he was in Sir Mark Sykes's hands. In his 

 training days Mr. Garforth went to see his string at 

 Whitewall, where old Job Marson was head lad to Joe 

 Ackroyd, and heard a bitter complaint from the latter, 

 that the grey couldn't make his hack gallop. Still he 

 did not like to throw him up without one more trial, 

 and it was accordingly settled that he was to go for a 

 Plate at Malton. He stopped for one more plunge at 

 the post, and got thrown an immense way. Jem 

 Garbutt was not the boy to spare him, and at him he 

 went, hand and heel, till he got within the distance 

 post. By some mistake the flag was not dropped in 

 time, or he would have been bowled out, and seizing 

 his opportunity at last, he went in and won the other 

 two heats. He was put to a mere pony mare by 

 Ruler, and the low light-fleshed Oiseau was the result. 



Mr. Garforth began to think " that the q. ^^^ 

 parson's new plan" had not spoilt the 

 breeding so much as he expected, when he saw him 



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