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Crutch Robinson, has wholly vanished, and there is 

 nothing save green sward within some thorn hedges. 



We never saw it but once in its glory, and 

 that was " in Satirist's year." Sim Templeman 

 was saddling Wee Willie, the first of the Liver- 

 pools ; and Bob lieseltine was looking after the 

 grey Bolus, one of the first of the Physicians ; 

 Jack Holmes was wasted to a thread paper for a 

 7st. I2lb. mount upon Kingston Robin ; Cartwright, 

 then quite a Nat of the North, twice donned the 

 Vansittart orange to win upon Galaor and had the 

 broadest of Yorkshire congratulations from John Gill ; 

 and the rough and ready M. Jones scored a race for 

 Lord Stanley on the chestnut Cornuto. Still these 

 horses were mere pigmies in point of fame to others 

 which trod " Karsy Moor." The beautiful Magistrate 

 with Bill Scott in the green and gold, and Mytton's 

 Anti-Radical and Barefoot were all v/inners. It was 

 here that Signorina slipped Memnon round the turns ; 

 that Longwaist, with " Uncle Sam " up, defeated Fleur 

 de Lis ; that Templeman got that marvellous head 

 on the post out of little fifteen-hand Catherina, which 

 " made history ;" and that Miss Bowe ran away in 

 a three-mile Queen's Plate from General Chasse, 

 who had to come down hill at the finish, instead of 

 having his favourite Liverpool Cup rise (on which 

 so many cracks had come back to him), when Jack 

 Holmes slipped in the whalebone and the Ripon 

 rowels. 



The Committee had very hard work to secure their 

 late course at Castle Irwell. When Kersall Moor 

 was taken from them, some people said that RadclifTe 

 Bridge race ground would do. Horwich was also 

 anxious that the meeting should come to its Moor ; 

 Newton was ready to make its fixture for Whitsun 

 week, and it was only at last when White Moss had 

 been rejected, that Castle Irwell was fixed upon. 



The meeting on the Irwell meadows began on May 



