1 6 The Post and the Paddock. 



colt had hung out distress signals. The maxim of 

 " Cave de resignationibus!' which an ancient head of a 

 college was wont to impress on all his departing 

 B.A.'s, loses none of its point in turf matters ; and 

 hence the troubled sea of politics brought him even 

 less rest than the constant ebb and flow of the odds 

 at Tattersall's. Mr. Disraeli has placed on record, in 

 his memorable " blue ribbon of the turf" passage, 

 how he gave a "splendid groan" in Bellamy's, when 

 he realized the bitterness of his defeat on his cherished 

 West Indian motion, and the Derby triumph of his 

 still more cherished Surplice in the colours of 

 another. 



Few modern racing men have been able to keep up 

 a regular series of turf successes, year after year, with 

 the most carefully chosen blood, to say nothing of 

 cast-offs. Still, however unlucky a man may be, if he 

 does not suddenly come to a resolution to part with 

 his stud, there is certain to be some hidden yearling 

 or two-year-old in it, who would have retrieved his 

 luck. Surplice would have compensated Lord George 

 for many a defeat ; Kingston was not fated to carry 

 the " purple and orange cap" of Colonel Peel; Gemma 

 di Vergy might have enabled " Mr. Hope" to hope on ; 

 the Duke of Richmond sold Wild Dayrell back to Mr. 

 Popham ; and the Marquis of Exeter had all but 

 parted with Stockwell and his whole stud at the Nor- 

 thampton meeting of his St. Leger year. Phryne and 

 Barbelle together have been the fruitful mothers of 

 upwards of sixty thousand pounds, in sales and stakes, 

 to the Eglinton and Cawston stud racing accounts ; 

 but perhaps no stable ever produced so many good 

 runners in one season, as Sir Joseph Hawley's in 185 1. 

 Three out of the four bore part with Clincher, in the 

 clearance which the "cherry jacket" made of race 

 after race at Doncaster on the Cup day in New- 

 minster's year ; and " B. Green" kept well to the fore 

 with " his dauntless three" — Beverlac, Flatcatcher, and 



