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and very shabby and peculiar behind the saddle, 

 although he filled up there as a stallion. His stock 

 generally did well in their two-year-old season, and 

 one of them, Bounce, ran the four-year-old Emancipa- 

 tion to a head, and was obliged to be entered as a 

 three. His coachers were wonderfully fine, and, like 

 Touchstone, he was never known to get a chestnut 

 He was so idle at one time that a thirty-six hour day 

 would not have sufftced him ; but Dick Stockdale 

 went at him with a cudgel after the fashion of the 

 Arabs, with such hearty good will, that, on emerging 

 from the stable, his face was quite maroon with his 

 exertions, and the process had not to be repeated. 

 Arctic, out of a cart-mare by Old Noseley, was the 

 best of his half-bred nags, and was sold for 80/. to Mr. 

 Sidney Herbert, who let a farmer have him, under the 

 impression that he had got a bad bargain ; but the new 

 owner begged to send his horse, some months after, 

 to gallop with Percy's lot ; and made such an example 

 of them, that they were fain to get him back at a good 

 ransom. 



D, . . Amons^ Brutandorf 's sons were Physi- 



Physician. . , tt -m /-/- --r-i /- 



cian and Hetman Platoff. The former 

 was a short round horse, and as complete a nag 

 stepper as ever answered to a saddling-belL At two 

 years old his smart little fillies (of whom Maria Day 

 was the sweetest and the best), could slip away from 

 almost anything, but the second season generally 

 found them out. The Cure, although he did not 

 inherit size on either side, had quite enough of it him- 

 self, and a good deal of quality and length to boot , 

 but he required to be very plump, to look his best. 

 He was neglected for a long time, and got rather 

 buried in Scotland, till the dam of Warlock brought 

 him out with Lambton. He got them small, and this 

 is the case with his half-breds as well as thorough- 

 breds. Underhand is elegance itself, but he is only 

 fifteen hands, while El Hakim at four years old was 



