358 Saddle and Sirloin. 



25th, 1847, with a dead heat between Louisa Newell 

 and Meaux. George Simpson on Sheraton got the 

 whip for winning the principal cup, and Tommy Lye, 

 who died at last with as many pence as he had once 

 had pounds, wrote regretting that a fall at Catterick 

 had prevented him from contending for it in the town 

 of his nativity. Peep o'Day Boy was bowled out 

 the next year by Swiss Boy for the Cup, and for some 

 time the Chesterfield and B. Green colours had quite 

 a cup patent. Legerdemain, Frantic, Black Doctor, 

 Longbow, King of Trumps, Rataplan (9st. 3lbs.), 

 Typee, Underhand, Ivanhoff, and Ellermire have all 

 been winners over these meadows. The prophets saw 

 nothing in the future winning "pony," Saucebox, when 

 he was a Trades Cup winner, and Nat was never 

 more astonished than when he took his celebrated 

 leap over the rails on the perverse Iron Duke. On 

 September 21st, 1867, Mr. Eastwood wound up mat- 

 ters with Rejoiner, who ran away from Merry Harp 

 and old Queen of Trumps.* His horses played a 

 prominent part when the new course was opened at 

 Old Trafford, as Lord Hastings came under the charge 

 of Arthur Briggs, and Buttercup of Watson, and each 

 had full liberty to do his best to win the silver cup 

 which the committee gave to the trainer of the first 

 Trades Cup over the new ground. They compared 

 notes the night before, and each was equally con- 

 fident ; but Butterfly's daughter made short work 

 of the " Lord." 



* This hard-working old "charwoman" ran 164 times in her six 

 seasons, and won 42 times, or about every fourth time, which is any- 

 thing but " monkey's allowance" in these days of severe " competitive 

 examination" for the turf as well as the civil service. She first 

 appeared as a bad fifth in the Doncaster Trial Stakes of 1862. Oddly 

 enough, her stable mate, Moulsey, who ran his last race at Warwick 

 Autumn, came out at Doncaster Spring in '63 as a bad fourth for the 

 Betting Room Stakes ; and he retired about the same time, after having 

 run 113 times, and won 34 times. 



