90 The Horse-breeding Industry in Yorkshire. 



Modwena, was reserve for the Championship at the Islington 

 Show in 11*08. The latter has an all thoroughbred pedigree, 

 her dam being Madam Modjeska by Gordon. Madam 

 Modjeska's dam was by Peppermint out of Monica by 

 Morocco ; and the great-great-granddam of Modwena was the 

 original Louisa. Violet, a bay mare, bought by the eighth 

 Lord Middleton after winning a race at Nottingham about 

 1866, was by Loutherherg, dam by Sir Richard Sutton's The 

 Friar, who, although in the stud-book, was really a half-bred 

 horse. Dinah was a Yorkshire hunter mare of Holderness 

 breed, her dam's sire having been Lanercost, who in the early 

 part of last century got some noted hunting stock out of half- 

 bred mares in Yorkshire. Magjrie, foaled 1838, came of a 

 famous racing pony strain, and founded a yqvj valuable breed, 

 her descendants making particularly hard and useful Wold 

 hunters. Queen Bee was by Newminster out of BirdhilVs 

 dam, and Fa7inie, a half-bred mare, came of Touchstone 

 descent. Lavitiia was one of Sir George Cholmley's mares, by 

 Theobald out of a thoroughbred dam, and was bought at the 

 famous dispersal sale of his stud. Among the foundation 

 mares added by the present Lord Middleton were Moorhen 

 (by Young Walkington), that carried the huntsman for eight 

 seasons, and then proved a great success at the stud ; Miss 

 Sykes, a half-bred mare by Morocco, whose grandson. Syntax 

 by Wales, took hrst prize as a two-year-old at the " Royal " at 

 Norwich last year ; Mermaid«i\d Firefly, that have both produced 

 high-priced hunters, the thoroughbreds Fair Geraldine by 

 Desmond and Glare Girl by Novelist, and others of later dates. 

 Bay and brown are the prevailing colours among the brood 

 mares and young stock, with a sprinkling of chestnuts. The 

 horses in the hunt stables, which usually number between 

 thirty and thirty-five in the season, are all of them home-bred. 

 The young hunters are broken by the roughriders at four, and 

 come into the hunt stables when five-year-olds. 



Ml-. Frederick Reynard's stud at Sunderlandwick, about 

 two miles from Driffield, comprises some eight brood mares, 

 all of a good hunting type, combining quality with plenty of 

 bone and substance, and so just the kind to breed hunters up to 

 15 or 16 stone. Their bone below the knee, their large and 

 well-shaped hocks, and their good well-laid shoulders stand 

 out as specially notable features. The sires used here have 

 almost invariably been Queen's and King's premium winners 

 that have stood in the district, including Cyclops and Otterton 

 from the Wassand stud, Gordon, Hindley, Red Eagle, and 

 Wales from Birdsall, and Not Out, Denis Richard, and Berrill 

 from Mr. Wickham-Boynton's stud at Burton Agnes. The 

 last, located not far from Driffield, occupies a leading position 



