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honourably buried in his shoes ; but the grave of 

 "Amato, 1843," i^ Sir Gilbert Heathcote's grounds, 

 near Epsom, with its little iron railing, surmounted by 

 many a gilded fleur-de-lis, shaded by lofty chestnut 

 trees, and within earshot of the yearly thunderclap 

 which tells that another name has been entered on the 

 Derby scroll, by the side of the " Velocipede pony," 

 is the neatest specimen of a horse's tomb which the 

 Turf can press upon Mr. Ruskin's notice. 



Still we look upon Hambleton as the best training 

 ground in Yorkshire, and Ilsley as the best in the 

 South. Some of the Newmarket trainers fancy the 

 Bury or the Warren Hills, while as many are faithful 

 to the heath. The best country tan-gallop we know 

 of is Wadlow's, at Stanton, which is about one-and-a- 

 quarter miles round, and beautifully situated at the 

 foot of Lizzard Wood, a favourite meet in the Albrigh- 

 ton Hunt. No wonder that old Alonzo, our ten-year- 

 old Turf Nestor, was always ready for his spring work. 

 Veteran trainers have told us that to their eyes not 

 two horses in a thousand gallop exactly alike, and we 

 have known them detect their old pupils years after 

 by the test (one great mystery was revealed this way) 

 when their names have been changed, and every other 

 trace of identity purposely concealed ; while a great 

 Boston character, on the contrary, once sold his mare 

 at Horncastle in the morning, and bought her again 

 in cool blood at night for a new one ! The severest 

 four-mile gallop we ever saw was that which Fobert 

 sent The Dutchman, at Doncaster, on the Wednesday 

 morning before he was beaten for the Cup : and we 

 doubt whether the Town Moor was ever witness to a 

 stronger one, except on the Sunday, that Peirse, out 

 of a sort of bravado, gave Reveller and '' the Bedale 

 horses" their last spin, amid a perfect cloud of dust, 

 when scarcely another trainer dared even to let his lot 

 canter. It is not, however, every trainer who has, like 

 Fobert, a piece of genuine sound stuff to work upon. 



