260 Saddle and Sirloin. 



Oaks, and thinking he had done the correct thing ; of 

 Old Forth having his weighing beam in two rooms, so 

 that his jockeys might not see what weight they 

 carried in a trial ; of Lord Suffield and his confede- 

 rate taking their Bamboo revenge with Newlight to 

 the tune of 12,000/. on Lord George Bentinck, when 

 his lordship managed the green and gold interest 

 for Mr. Houldsworth, and had such a fancy for 

 Destiny ; and of Bill Scott making the judge and 

 jury laugh when he was a witness about the " three 

 clean, Bank of England notes, clean notes for 1000/. 

 each, my lord," which he got for his horse Sir Tatton 

 Sykes. 



We have always had a great fondness for Orton's 

 Turf Annals of York and Doncaster. We remember 

 the poor fellow — before he fell, no one exactly knew 

 why, under the ban of Lord George — who always left 

 his mark on a man — as keeper of the match-box, and 

 elerk of the course at York, as well as judge there, and 

 at Preston Guild, and several other northern meetings. 

 He was also, the " Alfred Highflyer" of the Sporting 

 Magazine, a third of a century ago, and his descrip- 

 tions of York and Catterick Bridge Meetings had a 

 freshness and an interest, we shall never know again. 

 In his introduction to his work he does not fail to do 

 justice to the horse-loving tendencies of each county 

 family. As the Dutchmen of Communipaw, men 

 fabled to have sprung from oysters, and each clad in 

 ten pair of linsey wolsey breeches, marched to a blood- 

 less battle under the banner of an oyster recumbent 

 upon a sea green field, so, according to our historian, 

 the Darleys of Aldby should have a Childers, and the 

 Huttons of Marske an Eclipse on their family quar- 

 terings, as having imported the Arab, or reared the 

 sire to which the renowned bay and chestnut owe their 

 descent. 



One of the very finest races ever run at York was 

 that Subscription Purse in which Action, with Harry 



