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training her he called out after him once more from 

 the landing, to tell him not to break her down, and 

 wrote next day to change his mind about sending 

 her altogether. In vain did Mr. Martinson, in his 

 Nancy zenith, offer him five hundred guineas for her, 

 and she was never trained. 



He might well be proud of his blood, as his Man- 

 dane, a splendid mare, who wasted almost to a 

 skeleton before she died, bred Manuella and Altisi- 

 dora to Dick Andrews, and Lottery to Tramp, while 

 Liverpool was out of her Whisker Daughter. Few 

 breeders could show such results from their endless 

 searching of hearts and pedigrees. Manuella, like her 

 dam, was very handsome ; and all the Altisidora mares 

 bred well. After Altisidora's death in the Great Lawn 

 ditch, the yearling fillies which ran with the mares and 

 foals were always brought in at night ; and it was to 

 their being a good deal coddled in small paddocks, 

 which had neither suf^cient space nor ground variation 

 to give them action, that many attributed the gradual 

 decHne of the harlequin in the return lists. It must 

 have been more from this cause than from their being 

 taken in at night from the Dove Cote or Great Lawn 

 that the decline is traceable, as the best breeders all 

 say that six hours a day is enough for any yearling to 

 be out, and that they should never be allowed to tire 

 themselves. 



Mr. Watt perhaps spoilt his stock most by his undue 

 love for Cerberus. He rode many wide chestnut 

 mares by him, who inherited his lack of size ; and he 

 was, in fact, anything but a worthy cross to follow 

 Tramp and Dick Andrews. Manuella's son, Bel- 

 shazzar, was the Blacklock for whom he had the great- 

 est fancy, although he was most undeniably soft. He 

 had sold him to Mr. Allen ; but when his Cara won 

 the Two Thousand, he determined not to be separated 

 from him, and sent off an agent post-haste to redeem 

 him from the foreigners, who had just got him. They 



