320 Saddle and Sirloin-. 



it is no wonder that there is a regular rush from all 

 parts of the Moor at the Tuesday morning exercise, 

 when the Whitewall fly, with the white horse in, is 

 seen coming across it to its well-known post, two dis- 

 tances from home. 



There could have been no finer treat than seeing 

 Blacklock go the first two miles in 3.37 min. of that 

 four-mile race over this course, in which he fairly 

 galloped the St. Leger winner Duchess to death. Old 

 Yorkshiremen may well hate to hear him and his 

 blood abused. They tell how he went four miles at 

 the same pace without a falter, reaching further and 

 further, as it seemed to their enraptured vision, at 

 every stride. His queer forelegs and short tail, and 

 " half-moon head," did not improve him, but his stride 

 was what they loved. Mr. Kirby used to tell us about 

 him, as he did of his dealings with the house of 

 Romanoff, and the great Scotch trotting match with 

 Lord Eglinton's father in it ; and once when we 

 sought for a little more information about General 

 Chasse, the old man rose from his chair, at eighty-five, 

 collared us, and made us support him across the room, 

 while he followed, lifting up his legs, to show how the 

 chestnut stepped on shipboard, when they had blind- 

 folded him, and he had become nervous by hitting the 

 doorstep of the stable. " Chasse" was a savage, but 

 there were many nearly as bad, and Major Yar- 

 borough wouldn't have Dumpling back to Heslington 

 when, after rearing, he knelt down and bit the ground 

 at York till he was absolutely beaten from the start- 

 ing-post with a rail. We do not remember to have 

 ever seen any demur as to starting, at Doncaster, or 

 to have heard of more than one of those extraordinary 

 waiting races, which sometimes occupy more than 

 twenty minutes, because no jockey will make play.* 



* The present Duke of Buccleuch was quite puzzled when he once 

 started the horses at Dumfries, and each jockey had orders to wait on 



