1 74 Saddle and Sirloin. 



its journeys, and if any friend asked the loan of it, 

 there was the stereotyped excuse, " / cannot go to lead 

 for thee!' He invariably took out a game licence, and 

 kept several setters, but he never fired a gun, although 

 he was always going to become a British sportsman 

 '* next season," up to his death, at 84. The nastiest 

 part about him was, that if he knew that a man coveted 

 a dog or a gun at a sale, or elsewhere, he would buy 

 it at any price, purely to deprive him of it. 



Mr. Vernon, one of the " fathers of the turf," was 

 great as a wall-fruit amateur, and he astonished the 

 Newmarket gardeners by his new mode of forcing 

 peaches. " Count" O'Kelly, the owner of Eclipse, 

 divided his attentions between the mighty chestnut 

 and a parrot, for which he gave 50 guineas, besides 

 paying the woman's expenses with it from South- 

 ampton. It was a wonderful musician, and they do 

 say that- it would go back to the erring bar if it made 

 a mistake in whistling a tune. The Count, however, 

 recited no parrot formula to his nephew about betting, 

 but left pretty plain instructions in his will that he 

 was to forfeit 500/. for every bet he made. When 

 Mr. Trinket died, it was written of him that he was a 

 " perfumer without Temple Bar, and well known at 

 Newmarket ;" and Edward Pennyman, the saddler of 

 Holborn, earned a posthumous chaplet, to the effect 

 that he " first invented the hogskin saddle, and rode a 

 match over the Beacon." Bartley, the boot-maker, 

 must have been jealous of his fame, when he rode 

 Pegasus in Phosphorus's year. Mark Cobden's prowess 

 was confined to " making the largest arm" of any man 

 breathing at Goodwood, as he threw a 5^-ounce 

 cricket-ball there 119 yards, and beat Earl Win- 

 chilsea by 3. 



The very odd racing characters seem to have 

 lived chiefly in the North and Midlands. One died 

 not so many years since, so let him rest ; his pecu- 

 liarities are embalmed in the records of a great trial ; 



