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still less. The largest and perhaps the best was M.D. ; 

 but he was delicate as a two-year-old, and only just 

 coming, when the season was over. He was bought 

 on the St. Leger day ; and Mr. Parr was so deter- 

 mined to have him, that with all his high Saucebox 

 hopes, he waited to bid for him when scarcely four 

 others were left with Mr, Tattersall. Being the only 

 bidder he got him at his reserve price, 120 guineas, and 

 Apathy for 100 guineas. The one was sold, after 

 winning a race or two, for a thousand guineas ; and 

 the other looked quite as dangerous as Blink Bonny, 

 when his leg gave way after crossing the road. 

 Templeman had been unusually anxious about 

 his mount, and he lived in Benhams for three weeks 

 before, in order that he might ride the horse at 

 exercise. 



Hetman Platoff was out of a Comus mare, and 

 though stout enough himself under killing weights, 

 his stock, save and except Cossack, were seldom fond 

 of a distance. Cossack was suspected of the same 

 malady, but his running for the Cesarewitch as a 

 three-year-old, under 8st. 61bs., and his Goodwood 

 Cup finish with Nancy, told a different tale. In 

 their heads many of his stock go quite back to 

 Blacklock, but they have rather prick ears, and it 

 is just a doubt in our minds whether they are not 

 rather overtopped. 



In respect of this short prick ear, they y 1 • d 

 bore no small resemblance to Velocipede, 

 the greatest of the line, whose plate encircling his 

 portrait may well be the first that meets the eye, as 

 you enter John Scott's yard at Whitewall. This king 

 among horses had a rough, vulgar, Roman head, with 

 a white blaze, and a flesh-coloured nose, which he 

 transmitted to all his stock, the great majority of 

 which took after him in colour and marks. His 

 Juniper dam, half-sister to Camarine, the great mare 

 of the South, was not more than fifteen hands, but 



