356 Saddle and Sirloin. 



belt of white, for instance, looking like a tape-line, 

 from the crops round the fore-flank ; but " The Bride" 

 looks as if one side of her face had been covered with 

 a white cloth. The bull-carriage is in the yard, but 

 Knight of Knowlmere is not in his box — he is waiting 

 quietly at Clitheroe for a couple more shows, and if 

 there is a chance, to play out the rubber with Com- 

 mander-in-Chief before he rides back in state over the 

 hills. Malachite took the first yearling prize at the 

 Canterbury Royal, and he was eventually sold to Sir 

 John Sinclair of Barrock, Caithness, to cross with polls 

 and cows of the country, and many a good yearling 

 by him has gone to Georgemas Fair. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



" When North of Tweed and South of Tweed 

 Join hands at Waterloo." 



Sporting Gazette. 



Manchester Racecourses — Heaton Park — Thomas Godwin — Mr. 

 Atherton's Farm — Mr. Dickinson's Farm — Great Coursing Grounds 

 — A Visit to Chloe — The late Mr. Nightingale — The Duke of Devon- 

 shire's Herd — Mr. Bolden's — The Duchesses and Grand Duchesses 

 — Sketches of Great Greyhounds — A Waterloo Cup Day. 



WE strolled out from Manchester to have a look 

 at the old Kersall Moor racecourse. The de- 

 serted Newmarket and Chesterford railway is nothing 

 in comparison. Part of the ballast is left, although it 

 is grass grown ; but there is nothing from which we 

 might guess the antecedents of Kersall. A church is 

 built on the top turn ; the run-in is quite effaced, and 

 no one could suppose that the trying down hill finish 

 which shook every joint in Galaor's body could have 

 existed in that troubled surface of potato enclosures 

 and rubble heaps, which now cumber the ground. 

 The Grand Stand, once so vocal with Tom Bland and 



