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edition of Pantaloon, and has none of that bulky 

 grossness which so many stallions arrive at in the 

 course of a couple of seasons. Womersley, who united 

 so well at Sledmere, with the blood of " Sleight" (as 

 Snarry terms him), was out of a Touchstone mare. 

 He could stay remarkably well, as nearly all his stock 

 have done, and Peck always attributed his difficulties 

 with him to a lump forming between his thighs, 

 which seemed like a callous boil, and interfered so 

 much with his action as to render it almost impossible 

 to train him. 



None of the Birdcatcher stock have, however, stayed 

 better than Yellow Jack, who had a good stain of 

 Liverpool blood to help him, and he did what horse 

 has never yet done, and hardly ever will again — stand 

 a strong preparation and run second for the Two 

 Thousand, Chester Cup, and Derby. His legs were 

 never equal in substance to his top ; but as trainers 

 say, " they never break their legs if they're good 

 enough." Considering his price he was wonderfully 

 lucky, when we consider the fate of the i8oo-guinea 

 Lord of the Hills ; and the lOio-guinea Voivoide. His 

 sale seemed to take every one by surprise in 1854, but 

 Chantrey by Touchstone had been bought in for a 

 thousand guineas only seven years before, the cautious 

 Mr. Gully giving the last bond fide bid of 980 guineas. 

 Warlock was as delicate as horse could be in his 

 training days, and very short and jumped up in hi? 

 first two seasons ; but still there is something very 

 corky about him now, and if he had only been a 

 chestnut, he was the truest type of what Birdcatcher 

 almost invariably gets. 



Touchstone " '^^^ cart-horse quartered Camel" can 

 fairly challenge Sir Hercules for the 

 Whalebone wreath, with the two own brothers, Touch- 

 stone and Launcelot. They were pretty nearly struck 

 from the same die, but the latter was perhaps the 

 biggest of the two, and did not show so much quality. 



