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to the four mile stables, for the Whip. His shoulders 

 were short, and yet he was able to get up a hill ; and 

 he turned his toes out, and yet he got well down a 

 hill. The quickest horses invariably turn their toes 

 out (in fact if they are broad-chested, there is no chance 

 •of getting speed without it) and there was a good deal 

 of truth in the retort of Col. Peel's lad to a betting 

 man as he was leading Fantastic to the Heath, 

 " Turn his toes out, indeed ; he II make yon turn yotcf 

 toes out before hes done with you!' With Ted- 

 dington, if we remember rightly, it was the near one 

 that went most out, and with Wild Dayrell the off 

 one. 



It was to Eaton that old Emma, five The streatiam 

 times over, took her eight days' journey Paddocks. 

 from Streatiam, through Kirby Stephen and Warring- 

 ton ; and Cotherstone and Mowerina, the dam of West 

 Australian, were the best rewards of her toil. Seven 

 years before, she had thrown her first Derby winner 

 Mundig, to the game coarse Catton, who was great 

 even in an age of four milers, and would run every 

 yard of the way. The chestnut was the biggest and 

 thickest she ever had, slovenly in his style, and with 

 very great hips. Emma herself was a chestnut, low 

 and long, and half-an-inch under fifteen-two, but not 

 so big in her Hmbs as the dappled-bay Gibside Fairy. 

 She died in her twenty-seventh year, quite worn out. 

 At night she had taken her mash as usual, and then 

 she had struggled to the door, where she lay stretched 

 out and cold, with her head on the threshold, when 

 Isaac Walker came in the morning. Her form still 

 flourishes in the Cotherstone banner, which Mr. Her- 

 ring painted for Mr. Bowes after the Derby of that 

 year. Cotherstone himself is in the centre compart- 

 ment with Bill Scott up ; while Whalebone, Camel, 

 and Touchstone on one side, and Whisker, Gibside 

 Fairy, and Emma on the other, gracefully encircle 

 him, with the Streatiam coat of arms. America also 



