and Captain Christie's Nougat, Sst. 1lb., running a dead heat for first. Mr. Thellusson's Madame Clicquot, 8st. 5lb., (4); Mr. Osborne's Saunterer, 8st. 9lb., (5); and five others not placed also ran. 7 to 1 against Blink Bonny, who was beaten a head from the two, with a head only between her and Madame Clicquot, and Saunterer only beaten a head for fourth place!

At Chester, ridden by l'Anson, and carrying 8st. 3lb., she ran third for the Mostyn Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c. ; three quarters of a mile. Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, Sst. 7lb., first; and Mr. Copperthwaite's Sprig of Shillalagh, 8st. 71b., second; Mr. Osborne's Saunterer, 8st. 12lb., and six others also ran but were not placed. 3 to 1 against Blink Bonny, who was beaten a head for second, and Sprig of Shillalagh a head from the winner.

At Manchester, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she won the Sapling Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., T. Y. C.; beating Mr. Forbes' Double Glo'ster, 8st. 4lb., (2); Mr. Osborne's Saunterer, 8st. 10lb., (3); Mr. Crawford's Church Langton, Sst., (4); Mr. Handley's Lady Jersey Colt, 8st. 71b., (5); and Mr. Worthington's The Clown, Sst. 71b. 5 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who won easily by a length.

At Beverley, carrying 8st. 10lb., and ridden by I'Anson, she won the Bishop's Burton Stakes of 5 sovs. each, &c., T. Y. C.; beating Mr. Dunn's Pontifical, 8st. 71b., (2); Mr. Cunningham's Huntington, 8st. 4lb., (3); and ten others of no great repute. 5 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who won by ten lengths.

At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 6lb., she won the Tyro Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., T.Y.C., beating Sir C. Monck's Vanity, 8st. 4lb. (2); Mr. Chilton's Norton, 8st. 7lb. (3); Mr. Nichol's Rickledon, 8st. 7lb. (4); and three others not placed. 5 to 2 on Blink Bonny, who won easily by a length.

At Liverpool, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she won the Great Lancashire Produce Stakes of 10 sovs. each, T.Y.C., beating Mr. Merry's Cara Fatima, 8st. 4lb. (2); Mr. Osborne's Glede Hawk, 8st. 4lb. (3); and Mr. Peck's Miss Nightingale, 7st. 12lb. 5 to 2 on Blink Bonny, who won by three lengths.

At Goodwood, ridden by I'Anson, she won the Bentinck Memorial Stakes, colts 8st. 7lb., fillies 8st. 4lb., T.Y.C., beating Mr. Howard's Chevalier d'Industrie (2), Ld. Portsmouth's Ayacanora (3), and Mr. E. R. Clark's South-Western. 6 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who won by three-quarters of a length.

At York, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 4lb., she ran third for the Convivial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., T.Y.C., Ld. J. Scott's Lady Hawthorn, 7st. 13lb. (1), and Mr. Osborne's Augury, 8st. 2lb. (2); Admiral Harcourt's Wardermarske, 8st. 3lb., and three others also ran. 2 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who was beaten a length from the second, and a neck more from the winner.

At the same meeting, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 2lb., she won the Gimcrack Stakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., one mile, beating Ld. Zetland's Skirmisher, 8st. 7lb. (2); Mr. Chilton's Norton, 8st. 7lb. (3); Mr. Osborne's Augury, 8st, 5lb. (4); Mr. T. Parr's

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M.D., 8st. 7lb. (5); Mr. Knowles's Saladin, 8st. 7lb. (6); and Mr. Bell's Charles O'Malley, 8st. 7lb. 6 to 5 on Blink Bonny, who won by two lengths.

At Doncaster, ridden by I'Anson, she won the Filly Stakes of 30 sovs. each, &c., 8st. 71b. each, Red House in, beating Mr. Wentworth's Beatrice (2), and Capt. Christie's Equity. 8 to 1 on Blink Bonny, who won by eight lengths.

At the same meeting, ridden by I'Anson, and carrying 8st. 111b., she won a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, &c., T.Y.C., beating Mr. Mellish's Adamas, 8st. 7lb. (2); Ld. Zetland's Skirmisher, 8st. 71b. (3); Mr. Walker's Gemma di Vergy, 8st. 11lb. (4); Ld. Clifden's Loyola, 8st. 71b. (5); and Ld. Chesterfield's Schneider, 8st. 7lb. Even on Blink Bonny, who won by three-quarters of a length.

In 1857, at Newmarket Spring Meeting, Blink Bouny, ridden by I'Anson, was not placed for the 1,000gs. Stakes of 100 sovs. each, &c., 8st. 71b. each, D.M. Won by Mr. J. Scott's Imperieuse. Six others also ran. 5 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who was beaten off. It has since been explained that she was suffering, as she had been nearly all the winter, from dentition fever. Her teeth were subsequently rasped twice, and with so good an effect, that

At Epsom, ridden by Charlton, Blink Bonny won the Derby Stakes of 50 sovs. each, &c., colts 8st. 71b., fillies 8st. 2lb., a mile and a half, beating Mr. Drinkald's Black Tommy (2), Mr. Mellish's Adamas (3), Mr. C. Harrison's Strathnaver (4), Ld. Zetland's Skirmisher, Ld. J. Scott's Lady Hawthorn, Mr. Wilkins's Oakball, Adm. Harcourt's Wardermarske, Mr. Crawfurd's Zuyder Zee, Mr. F. Robinson's Anton, Mr. T. Parr's M.D., Mr. Jackson's Saunterer, Mr. J. S. Douglas's Tournament, Baron Rothschild's Sydney, Ld. Exeter's Turbit, Mr. Ford's Laertes, Ld. Clifden's c. by Surplice out of Beeswax, Ld. Clifden's Loyola, Mr. Taylor's Newton-le-Willows, Mr. Barber's Commotion, Mr. E. Parr's Lambourn, Mr. J. Merry's Special Licence, Ld. Anglesey's Ackworth, Mr. Copperthwaite's Sprig of Shillelah, Ld. Ribblesdale's Glee-singer, Mr. Howard's Arsenal; Mr. Howard's Chevalier d'Industrie, Mr. Bowes's Bird-in-the-Hand, Sir J. Hawley's Gaberlunzie, and Mr. W. S. Williams's Dusty Miller. 20 to 1 against Blink Bonny, who won by a neck. Run in 2 minutes and 45 seconds. One of the fastest Derby timed.

At the same meeting, ridden by Charlton, she won the Oaks Stakes of 50 sovs. each, for fillies, 8st. 7lb. each, a mile and a half, beating Mr. Jackson's Sneeze (2), Ld. John Scott's Mostissima (3), Mr. John Scott's Imperieuse (4), Ld. Clifden's sister to Jesuit (5), Duke of Beaufort's The Vigil (6), Mr. Fitzwilliam's Aspasia (7), Mr. T. Walker's Oriana (8), Mr. F. Fisher's Cantrip (9), Mr. Sutton's Hegira (10), Ld. Glasgow's f. by Birdcatcher out of Miss Whip (11), Mr. Osborne's Augury (12), and Ld. Glasgow's Tricolor. 5 to 4 on Blink Bonny, who won in a canter by eight lengths. Run in 2 minutes and 50 seconds, also one of the fastest races for the Oaks on record.

At Ascot, ridden by Charlton, she walked over for a Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, Swinley Course.

SUMMARY OF BLINK BONNY'S PERFORMANCES.

In 1856 she started eleven times, and won eight :-
The Sapling Stakes, at Manchester, value clear
The Bishop's Burton Stakes, at Beverley
The Tyro Stakes, at Newcastle

£255

240

250

The Lancashire Produce Stakes, at Liverpool

285

The Bentinck Memorial Stakes, at Goodwood

296

In 1857 she has started four times and won three :

Has started fifteen times and won eleven, value...... £11,511

Blink Bonny's engagements are in the Lancashire Oaks and the St. Leger, at Liverpool; in the Bentinck Memorial and the Gratwicke Stakes, at Goodwood; in the Great Yorkshire Stakes, at York; and in the St. Leger, Doncaster Stakes, and Park Hill Stakes, at Doncaster.

Mr. l'Anson, the trainer and owner of Blink Bonny, was at one time a trainer at Gullane, in North Britain. He has now, however, been settled for some years at Spring Cottage, Malton, where he has amongst his masters Messrs. Ewbank, Harrison, C. Smith, J. Robson, Colpitt, and Singleton. His son, who has looked after, and, up to Epsom, ridden Blink Bonny, rarely appears in public except for his father's stable. For the great events he, with most commendable discretion and self-denial, gave way to the accompanying hero of this history,

JOHN CHARLTON,

or "Johnny Charlton," as his familiars delight to call him-claims double honours, that many, however, share with him. The same jockey winning the Derby and Oaks of the same year is by no means "an Eleanor" feat. Saunders, like Charlton, accomplished it on one animal; while the elder Chifney, Buckle, Robinson, Chapple, Templeman, and Butler, have all since in turn followed up their lucksome, indeed, as with Templeman, more than once; while Charlton himself, within these few last years, was within an ace of what he has now succeeded in. He was second for the Derby on King Tom, and first for the Oaks, in the same week, on Mincemeat. Had the Baron's horse been quite fit, it is just on the cards that he would have won.

In the South here, Charlton has long seemed more at home in the Rothschild colours than in any other. In fact, had all gone straight, and his portrait come to us in regulation order, it must have been in

the deep blue-and-yellow cap. One associates him involuntarily with old Hungerford, the short flashy Orestes, Mentmore Lass, Blooming Heather, Leopold, and that grand, high-bred, half-brother to Stockwell, Rataplan and Co. For some years now he has been registered in the list of jockeys as residing at Hungerford House, Malton, as able to ride 7st., and as acknowledging no other "master" beyond the Baron. Still, few jockeys have been in more general request. His weight, of course, is much in his favour, and his ability and judgment at the same time are unquestionable. In the north especially they are always anxious to have him, and he has for some time been in the habit of riding for Mr. I'Anson's stable. Charlton is himself all but "Yorkshire too." He was born at Hartlepool, in Durham, some eight or nine and twenty years since, and got the rudiments of his education as a jockey with Bob Johnson at Middleham, so well known as the trainer of Bee's-wing. From here Charlton went to Armstrong, at Richmond, and so on to John Scott's, at Whitewall, where he took a first-class degree. He began, in the natural course of things, with riding trials, from which he gradually proceeded to more public practice. Fortune, however, has had some rough play with him; and be left Scott's stable, as he has just done the Baron's, not under the most agreeable circumstances. Mr. Nicholl's Newminster, a great favourite for the Derby of his year, and the winner of the St. Leger, was rather a mystery to his friends. They charitably concluded somebody had got at him, and not knowing who to suspect, conferred the doubtful compliment on Charlton and Simpson, both of whom were discharged. It is only right to say that the common opinion is, there was as much reason for implicating Charlton, or indeed his companion, as there has been in the more recent Sydney business, and that is saying something, too. The fact is, Charlton, if anything, is generally too sweet on his horse, as was the case with the Baron's last mount. It was not until he was put aside he expressed that fervent desire to be on something or other on which he might "ride over that Sydney."

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The caprice of fortune is proverbial, and when he thought she had done him most injury, she was in reality aiding him to the utmost. all the annals of the Turf there is no case where the turn came so soon or so welcome. Robinson had the credit of often serving out a late master who had not used him well, but that is nothing to compare with this -a man being taken off a bad, beaten horse, that he might ride an almost unequalled good one. We believe quite up to the last it was uncertain which of the two Charlton would be on; and a friend of ours, who dreamt he saw Charlton win, backed Strathnaver in consequence.

It would be rather too much, this warm weather, to go through the calendars for even so comparatively short a career as that of "Johnny Charlton." We must so trust a good deal to memory for any further record of his performances. As a rule, he may be considered, like Wells or Fordham, a fortunate man to put up. Still his great races are easily summed up. As we have already said, he won the Oaks in 1854, on Mincemeat, his first grand coup, when he had the pleasure of beating a particular fancy of John Scott's, one Meteora to wit. His favourite horse for a long time was Hungerford, with whom he won no end of things, including the Northamptonshire Stakes, and the Great

Yorkshire Handicap, and Doncaster Cup of the same year, 1853. In this season, too, he secured "The Thousand Guineas" for the Baron, on Mentmore Lass; and threatened a great deal more with Orestes. The Port, however, of the following Spring was about the acmé of his achievements on this over-rated nag. But perhaps Charlton's finest piece of riding was some time even antecedent to this, when he won the Goodwood Cup on Nancy, beating Alfred Day on Cossack by a head, after a rare display of horsemanship on either side. He had from the same home-quarter a useful horse, as people said, of his own, called Snowden Dunhill, with which he picked up here and there plenty of little fish; and he has been very successful at different times for Mr. Ewbank, whose horses are in l'Anson's hands, and one of whose daughters Charlton married some four years since.

Charlton's luck has not forsaken him since Epsom. He kept his hand well in at Ascot-having already won the Vase here on Leopoldand carried off the Cup with Skirmisher. It is seldom that we have seen a winning race, ridden in a prettier or more finished style. He "came on" with his horse from the turn, well in front, but never spoiling the effect of the thing by going too far away from them, or, on the other hand, attempting to draw it too fine. He is by no means a showy or flash horseman, and has, indeed, few of those peculiarities by which many of our famous jockeys are so easily distinguished. We have often, ere now, what with his light weight and quiet unassuming manner, heard him designated some lad," though in fact already ranking amongst the very first of his order. We believe, in a word, that for either ability or conduct he is worthy of his fortune, and we could hardly say more.

CHARLEY SCUPPER'S RACING YACHT.

CHAPTER XI.

It is necessary, for continuing the thread of our narrative, that our readers should now follow us to Littleborough; and from thence to the village of Thorley, the place of residence, it will be remembered, of Clara's friend, Kate Matson.

Ever since the memorable archery meeting at Littleborough Hall, it appears Harry Vare had been paying his addresses to Kate Matson, as her accepted suitor. The wedding-day was now fixed, and Clara was to be one of the bridesmaids on the occasion. Clara accepted the distinguished invitation with much pleasure; but the event proved a source of unhappiness to her, and brought back to memory so many bitter reflections, that it was the saddest day she had passed since her lover had turned from her. She was aroused by her maid as early as seven in the morning, having twelve miles to travel before reaching Thorley.