238 Silk and Scarlet. 



got its most beautiful importation in her eldest Cat- 

 ton-begot son Trustee, who ran third for the Derby, 

 and passed into the Duke of Cleveland's hands. She 

 has no monument, but they still point out where 

 Queen Mab, the daughter of O'Kelly's Tartar mare, 

 who was said to have foaled her when she was thirty- 

 six, Hes under a thorn-tree, near the house, along with 

 Remembrancer and Pipator. 



Four Derby winners, and one of them a breaker of 

 the double spell, left Walker's hands in eighteen years, 

 and their portraits, by Mr. Harry Hall, each within a 

 horse-plate, hang in pairs on two of the boxes. The 

 paddocks themselves are shaded by high holly hedges, 

 which John Smith planted ; and there is nothing to 

 disturb the quiet of the yearlings, save when a mighty 

 cock-pheasant rises, startled from the neighbouring 

 brake, and comes whirring through. Six brood mares 

 were in an outlying paddock, headed by Mowerina, 

 the remnant of old Emma's race, and who bore the 

 last foal to Bay Middleton. John Scott's dream that 

 she was to go to Bay Middleton, and breed a winner 

 of the Derby, came to nought, as the little bay colt, 

 although full of promise, died before its time. She 

 was a great contrast in size to the Flapper, and was 

 rather a light unpretending mare ; slow in her racing 

 days, and able to go for a week, till her legs failed. 

 It was in order to get a little of his coarse bone, that, 

 in a lucky hour, it was decided to send her to Mel- 

 bourne, and thence came the real '' Lord of Langley- 

 dale," in the shape of West Australian. He was born 

 on April 24th, (eighteen days earlier in the year than 

 Cotherstone), whereas Daniel O'Rourke, in spite of his 

 small stature, was foaled as early as January 7th. The 

 "West" had very bad distemper towards the close of 

 the year, and wasted to a mere sickly frame-work of 

 skin and bone. It was quite a grapple for life or death 

 with him for months ; but the spring grass sent him 

 along, and he looked behind him no more. 



