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head and repeatingto himself as he sat, ^^ Isaac heat Cava- 

 va7i — Isaac beat Caravan!' as if he could never com- 

 pletely master the fact. His highest ambition was to 

 win the Chester Cup, and he always said that it was 

 the worst day of his life when Caravan beat Harkaway 

 over that course, as the handicappers would give him a 

 chance no more. In the Houghton Meeting of '41 he 

 was in his greatest force with Tamburini and Vulcan, 

 the latter of whom the other Days, who had charge of 

 him between the meetings, did not consider good 

 enough to beat old Wardan, much less their Melody. 

 The party dropped fifteen thousand on Melody ; 

 as in fact they knew of everything in the race but 

 Vulcan, whose jockey was simply ordered to lie in 

 front. 



Orlando. ^^ would be strange if Touchstone had 



been able to counteract all the softness of 

 Vulture in Orlando, whose own action, which is very 

 straight from his fore legs, did not give us a great 

 notion that he was a stayer, and certainly as a general 

 thing his stock are fondest of a mile. We never tired 

 of looking at him, as he stood at ease in his box, 

 resting his near hind foot, and showing the rich 

 folds of that beautiful muscular neck, as he turned 

 his high-bred forehead round, and looked with that 

 fine but dim eye at his visitors. He was rather light 

 in his fore ribs, and short from the withers to the 

 shoulder point; but still there was little to find fault 

 with in his shoulders, although they may, perhaps, 

 have been a trifle upright. Teddington was remark- 

 able in every way, and, in fact, he has always been a 

 paradox to us in training, though he has proved beyond 

 doubt already that he is a very clever filly getter. We 

 never saw anything more fit and beautiful when he 

 came out to meet Stockwell for the championship in 

 the Ascot Cup ; and nothing more miserable four 

 months after, when Taylor sent him off after his 

 Cesarewitch defeat, on his last solitary and fatal walk, 



