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dam of Grey Momus, that fountain head of Sled- 

 mere stud honour. Miss Agnes by Birdcatcher and 

 her daughter Little Agnes by The Cure were then 

 purchased from the late John Osborne, who would not 

 part with Agnes by Clarion, the foundress of the 

 tribe. Bernice by Stockwell had a short sojourn of a 

 year, and left Sophie by Lord Clifden behind her, and 

 the speedy lop-eared Marigold by Teddington is one 

 of the four perpetually in residence. It is a strange 

 contrast to old times, when three or four stacks with 

 eight or nine foals haltered to each, so that they might 

 learn to lead, were the object of a morning's walk. 

 The new order of things, limited as it is, has so far 

 borne better fruits than the old. The Agneses 

 arrived in foal with Bismark (500 guineas) and Tib- 

 thorpe, both of them winners, and the latter a cracker 

 if his pipes had been as good as his pace. A Little 

 Agnes filly has also won in a small way, and so has 

 Amendment, the daughter of Wensleydale, and when 

 we were in " Hampton Court" paddock one Sep- 

 tember we found Snarry lunging Frivolity, a pretty 

 chestnut daughter of Macaroni and Miss Agnes and 

 expressing pretty confident hopes that " my beauty" 

 would let him read something to her advantage ere 

 long in his Manchester paper. She did not belie his 

 hopes with 500 guineas at the hammer, and she won 

 the Althorp Stakes by a neck, with six or seven future 

 winners behind her, the very first time she was stripped. 

 Her dam had no foal at her foot in the paddocks, 

 where three chestnuts, two Stockwells, and a Thor- 

 manby, which averaged 400 guineas at Doncaster, 



" Were glad, nosing the mother's udder," 



and playing havoc with the countless mushrooms in 

 their gambols. Morphia, her half brother from Wens- 

 leydale, came in for a smaller share of Snarry 's heart, 

 but leggy and unlikely to " come to hand early" as he 



