our-year-old, when he carried off a sweepstakes
of 300 sovereigns at Newmarket, beating Chapeau d'Espagne and
Adrian. Having thus established himself with Dilly, owing to Mr.
Payne, with whom he had become confederate, training at
Littleton, Mr. Greville made no change until Dilly gave up, when
he continued his confidence to his brother William Dilly, who
succeeded him on his retirement from Lord Glasgow.

'It was some few years before Mr. Greville had another good
horse, at least one that is worth dwelling upon, and Alarm must
be considered the legitimate successor to Mango. This colt Mr.
Greville purchased of his breeder, Captain George Delme, and
tried him good enough to win the Derby in 1845 in a canter, even
in the face of such animals as Idas and The Libel. But just prior
to starting an accident occurred by which all Mr. Greville's
hopes were destroyed; for The Libel flying at Alarm very
savagely, he jumped the chains, threw Nat who lay for a time
insensible on the ground, and ran away. He was, however, soon
caught and remounted, and although much cut about ran forward
enough to justify the idea that but for his accident he must have
won, as no other animal could have got through the Cambridgeshire
with 7st. 10lb. on him so easily as he did in a field of such
quality as he met. In the following year Alarm made some amends
for his Epsom failure, by winning the Ascot Cup, as well as the
Orange Cup at Goodwood, the latter after a terrific race with
Jericho. He also, at Newmarket in the autumn, won three great
matches in succession, viz. with Oakley, the Bishop of Romford's
cob, and Sorella. Going through the "Calendar," Cariboo is the
next most noteworthy animal we come across, for it will be
recollected he ran second to Canezou for the Goodwood Cup, having
been lent to make running for her. But it is almost needless to
add that, had Mr. Greville known him to be as good as he was, he
would have been started on his own account, in which case the cup
in all probability would have gone to Bruton Street instead of to
Knowsley. Continuing our track through the "Calendar," we light
on a better year for Mr. Greville, in 1852, when he had really
two good animals in Adine and Frantic. With the former, at York,
he had perhaps the best week he ever had in his life, having won
both the Yorkshire Oaks and Ebor Handicap with her, besides
beating Daniel O'Rourke with Frantic, who two months before had
carried off the Union Cup f