2 The Post and the Paddock. 



to " on their Arabs beneath the rock of Gibraltar or 

 the minarets of Calcutta. The races, paper hunts, and 

 steeple-chases on the Tchernaya and at Shumla, will 

 be engraven on the retinas of Cossack, Turk, and Sar- 

 dinian for many a year to come ; and even when the 

 horrors of the first winter before Sebastopol were 

 barely over, officers were writing home about nomina- 

 tions for the Grand Military at Leamington. Both 

 our Jockey Club and Tattersall's are reproduced at 

 the Antipodes, whose race-courses, pastern-deep in 

 the erica, the heath, the wild strawberry, the rich- 

 scented dwarf-acacia, and all the countless varieties of 

 the world of flowers, contrast strangely with the 

 " hard-going," which breaks down the West Austra- 

 lians and the Wild Dayrells of the old country. The 

 abstract fame of our race-horses is also rife in hemi- 

 spheres where " Ruff" is still unknown. On this point 

 v\^e have the positive assurance of a Transatlantic 

 Rambler, that the only artifice by which he could 

 disperse an extempore procession of street boys, and 

 pacify a Brazilian landlord, on whose shaggy pony he 

 had been compelled to confer a racing tail in his 

 travels, was, by assuring him in his most polished 

 Portuguese, that it was now, in all its bearings, " the 

 exact image of the Flying Dutchman — the finest horse 

 in England." 



The wonderful success of their St. Leger colts has 

 given Irishmen a still stronger bias towards the turf 

 than they had even in the days when Harkaway was 

 the champion of Goodwood and the Curragh. Still 

 steeple-chasing nestles nearest their hearts ; and the 

 remembrance of Brunette and Abd-el-Kader will be 

 green when Faugh-a-Ballagh, The Baron, and Knight 

 of St. George are forgotten. Scotland's pride has 

 been occasionally awakened by the victories of " the 

 tartan ;" but racing feeling in her has waxed fainter 

 and fainter, since Mr. Ramsay died and Lord Eglin- 

 ton retired. The finest modern races in its calendar 



