The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-04-29 00:00:00

?HS TWO THOUSAND.

"Well, ymir honour, if 7 .u'sl let me off this thee
giv• you • tip for the Cit: and Suburban," so said
• sturdy a 71 sharper when ib .ut to be sentenced to
three uconths on the etap,wr for soto4 piece of
rascality long, lung at.. tied the been last week,
be would no doubt have owned 81. Blame
for the poet of honour. lie was lb* popular been of
the hoar, but be Wad • her., in whow prowess I had
not the least veithre of faith, and he ran no better
than I thought he w .ul-I. Race horse. are • prowl
haughty set of beings, who have the m ist enWirne
contempt for popular gratulation, no in nioetysnine
cases out of • hundred the more they are glittered
the worse they behave, and when must decried
exhibit prodiges of • el-tir to the confusion of their
detractors. When ono of these gentry his to pull
oh .ut a thousand guineas •a every Ix dr of his tail,
the drag tat o heavy, awl instead of being In the van
bole generally seen toiling ignominiously in the rest.
It is • strange phenom -Don, and although I have
b,eal • bucker ever since Ellington won the Oath'''.
I have never larva able to explain it. Want • aloe
delusion is backlog of b..reets I What fitful dreams of
tv pe to the su-tny south I have pondered over as I
have looks I down Wabeter'e sheets an I examined the
weights, and cast wistful glances at the odds so
temptingly display...l with only flys per neat, deduoted,
windage, "fifty to a houdre I to one, gentian:ea,
against hove not Immo.) r. What a alas bait to the
seedy iv nileman who has worn a hole in hie left head
trottwrs p .rket bunting up hie [wit Inner. Oh, eye,
It will coma off some day, • o het• goes again. The
thane:wad will come t band emu', fine m rising. and
well be if On Or hull-lay • . . Your deal planks
and a oomfort ibis ride on an old sprinelees under.
taker's cart fr tin the worktytuse to the nearest
cemetery is more than likely to come first, old
fellow. You may lay six to four on that, or go nap on
it if yon cho we, you may ba certain. A big horse may
for all that be very likely to win the Ascot cup,
and perhaps the Alexandra plate to boot, or flying Us
nate profitable, if lee. glorious g•use, pull off the
Royal Hunt if he get. In at sitht at sne five (and who
says he won't), and should he be entered, and keeps at
twenty-five to 004 up t•/ the morning of the race, put
on your last half d Mar ream, althouth you go and ask
your uncle to lend you the loot 'a•b fit us the only
shirt to your back. Quicklime had to much oold
. . .

water thrown over bim after hi. skilful galop in Um
Ceearewitah, that I thoilAt he had herons. well
slacken-A lime, and I mu.: code... muoh I liked
him as • three year old,that no Irolie ever surprised me
more then he did last week. Rovrevor, he is only
another added t the list, not of, &o.—but
of humbe.s. The Teri. Thowiand comes on for decision
next Wedoemlay, an I I summed about • dozen
will go t the poet, of which Soot Free, Harvester,
Superb.", Lord Byron, !Loyal Fero, and Doncestai Cup
are the pick. if id Superb. dme well this spring the
backer's task would hams bren ea .say one, bat eh*
hes not, and I therefore discard her. Sat Free
behaved eo much like his celebrated sire that, had he
hi. head In.. on Wedamdsy, he would equaniler his
6414 ; but, as ia the case of Bruce, there cc." ifs" and
" and. ;" still, Its bad better be backed, for, with
Harvester au 1 Royal Fern th-own In, the winner I.
doubtless o .utaleed therein. These three ar• all .1
heap, and I don't like to atteinpt to separate them,
although Said Free is, no the king of the petty;
but, blowing asi le the smoke, perhaps Harveeter
wield be the best t foliw nip, so put down your
dollars and see how bookie lei I shout when some
dea;.lsed 40 to 1 charms grim sailing past the winniag
poet, and one more turf buhole be burst la the e ,Id
spring air.

COCK 01 THI WALK.