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up the tan twice or thrice in the course of the morn- 

 ing, going like great guns, with his coat tails flying in 

 the breeze. After their first gallop the Whitewall 

 team walked across the top of the Wold, and when 

 Mr. Scott has followed and had them on parade for 

 some twenty minutes, they are sent up the gallop 

 again. Taraban takes his pupil three times up it, and 

 then the morning's work is ended. All looked serene, 

 and in our mind's-eye we saw the chestnut running 

 home fourth or fifth ; but the morning brought bron- 

 chitis, and his leg began to fill, and the Johnsonian 

 pen went through his name. 



Blair Athol, the last St. Leger winner that was 

 prepared on the Wold, was " a perfect glutton," and 

 Mr. I'Anson says of him, that he did more work in 

 the three weeks between York and Doncaster, and 

 ate more corn than Lanercost, Vestment, or Inheritor, 

 who once seemed almost invincible in this respect. 

 His first Malton trial was at even weights with Borea- 

 lis, after she had run in the Cambridgeshire Stakes, 

 and he beat her by two lengths. Mr. I'Anson then 

 asked him to give her ^lbs., but he rather ran out at 

 the turn, and Challoner on the mare beat him by a 

 head. Ten weeks before the Derby he was found to 

 be very much injured in the muscles of the thigh, and 

 his boy was discharged, and it was fully five weeks ere 

 he was allowed to go out of a walk. At Paris he ran 

 big, as it was impossible to gallop him, and yet, then 

 sore as he was with the hard ground, he came back 

 across the Channel to Ascot, and cut down Ely on 

 the Friday over the New Mile. He was not intended 

 for York, as, in consequence of his shoe coming off 

 half as he walked and half in the Rubbing House, he 

 had missed a sweat. Borealis and Caller Ou gene- 

 rally led him in his work, and a hard time they had 

 of it. Mr. I'Anson never knew how good he was, 

 and thinks that he never had a horse with such true 

 action, as even in distress he never rolled or rocked. 



