360 Saddle and Sirloin. 



with John and Bill Scott, and Nat in his train ; Slash- 

 ing Harry and Miss Bowe ran the most slashing of 

 dead heats ; the beautiful Vanish was great in Gold 

 Cups, and the dam of Orlando did one of those " short, 

 sharp, and decisive " things, at which for half a mile 

 she has perhaps never had a rival. 



About thirty years ago Lancashire had better racing 

 on the whole than Yorkshire. People can hardly 

 realize now what an event the Liverpool Tradesmen's 

 Cup was when General Chasse, Inheritor, and Charles 

 XII. were winning it, or when Harkaway first made 

 his appearance in England, and was beaten by Tommy 

 Lye on St. Bennett. Very few turfites went to bed on 

 those nights, watching for the mail guards to bring 

 the news. " The days of its glory were o'er" with 

 the Cup dead heat between John Day on Vulcan, and 

 Chappie on Rodanthe. Lord George infused such 

 energy into the Goodwood management, and Mr. Etty 

 was such a quiet-going person, that owners gradually 

 began to reserve their horses for the south, and with 

 The Baron and Van Tromp, its famous St. Leger 

 ceased to throw any shadows before. The late Lord 

 Derby's racing heart was not in his country. It might 

 be in the days of Verbena, for whose sake he always 

 fancied the Velocipede blood, but when John Scott be- 

 gan to train for him, Doncaster and the great Southern 

 meetings pleased him better. He cared for few things 

 more than going by the night train to see a trial run 

 at Doncaster at dawn, and we remember well, how 

 he seemed to enjoy walking right round the course 

 with his lot, at their morning exercise in Knight of St. 

 George's year. 



During our stroll to Heaton Park, we called upon 

 Thomas Godwin (late head groom to the Earl of 

 Wilton), that fine old man, of whom Dick Christian 

 affirmed in his weird-like accents — " Pleasant fellow 

 as need to be, and the best groom rider as ever come to 

 Melton? He was born near Elton New Closes, 



