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The curious growth of Camel's quarters was owing to 

 his having reared and fallen back as a yearling, and 

 another fall of a different kind made him eventually 

 useless. Touchstone was hardly fifteen two, and the 

 roots of his ears were quite his coarsest part. He was 

 alike good for speed and staying ; and galloped wide 

 behind as many stayers do, but he wanted very fine 

 riding, and would swerve if his jockey raised his whip. 

 Calloway tried to dodge him, by changing his whip 

 hand behind his back, as he followed Usury up the 

 Mostyn mile ; but the horse saw the movement, and 

 was across the mare's track in an instant. Long 

 gentle sweats were his mode of doing work, and one 

 of John Scott's most elaborate recollections is, the 

 way in which he staved off from him a threatened 

 attack of black jaundice. His mares were generally 

 low in the shoulder, and somewhat flat-sided, and 

 hence in both these points the Blacklock blood was a 

 corrective. 



The short -shouldered Caravan was caravan 

 another of Camel's sons, but he was an 

 idol with no one but Isaac Day ; who in spite of some 

 undue prejudices, which would make him stick season 

 after season to a cripple (one of which never lay down 

 for three years), he had few equals either in training a 

 racer, or riding some of those hunters for whom price 

 was no object, over the stone walls of the Heythrop 

 and Vale of AA^hite Horse. Had Lord George lived 

 there is no doubt that he would have trained for him ; 

 and *' No relation, but always the best of friends," used 

 to be his constant answer when any one asked him if 

 he wasn't own brother to John Day. " You didn't 

 win," was his only reply to Pavis, when he saw him 

 after Caravan's Derby, and he never believed that 

 anything ought to have beaten him. In fact, years 

 after old grey Isaac had skimmed over the dirt at 

 Shrewsbury, while Caravan laboured behind him up to 

 his hocks, he would be seen unconsciously nodding his 



