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in East Yorkshire, and there Mr. Wickham-Boynton has for 

 the last ten years kept a number of thoroughbred stallions, 

 most of them King's premium horses. He started his stud 

 in 1902, buying, in partnership with Mr. Henry Cholmondeley, 

 of Sledmere, Not Out by Isinglass, and bred by Sir 

 Tatton Sykes. This horse won a premium in the follow- 

 ing year, and was at the end of the season sold to go to 

 Hungary, having left some very good hunters behind him. 

 Then he had Pax, another premium winner, who after two 

 seasons at the stud was bought l)y the French. Sul)sequently 

 the stud followed up its successes at the Islington Show with 

 the Irish-bred Hoe O'Neill, Foundli^ig, Denis Richard, Long- 

 croft, winner of the Lincolnshire, and finally last year with 

 Berrill and Athos, all these sires winning King's premiums. 

 The first two, after a brief stud career here, were sold to 

 Sweden, and Longcroft to Ireland. Denis Richard by Laveno, 

 who won premiums in 1908 and 1909, has proved himself a 

 very successful sire, and his stock have won a good many prizes 

 in the county. He was sold at the last December sales at 

 Newmarket for 6001. to Sir Merrik R. Burrell, who owns a 

 noted stud of hunters in Sussex. Besides those named, several 

 other thoroughbred stallions of note have stood at the Burton 

 Agnes stud for short periods, notably Black Auster by 

 Persimmon, Toledo, and Bill of the Play, a very high-class 

 horse by Bill of Portland out of Opera Dance, practically all 

 eventually being sold to go to Continental countries. The last 

 mentioned, for instance, was bought for 1,550 guineas by 

 Count Lehndorff for the German Government stud at Graditz. 

 The stallions standing at this stud at the present, and Avhich 

 are jointly owned by Mr. Wickham-Boynton and Mr. Henry 

 Cholmondeley, are Berrill hj Rouge Dragon, Viceroy, a 

 highly-bred Gallinule horse, and Athos by The Rush. The 

 first has come greatly into fashion as a sire for half-bred mares 

 since he won the newly-instituted King's Champion Cup for 

 the best premium stallion at the Islington Show last year. 

 Berrill, who won the Cambridgeshire in 1900 and many other 

 races, and has sired winners under both rules, is a very 

 attractive stallion, Avell-balanced and truly shaped, standing 

 16 hands, a sound dark bay in colour, and nicely actioned. He 

 has got some good foals from hunter mares in the district. An 

 outstanding point al:»out the grey-coloure<l Athos is his good 

 and springy action. Mr. Wickham-Boynton has no difficulty 

 in filling the lists of all the horses at the stud, the thoroughbred 

 sires on an average covering some eighty mares during the 

 season. Some good hunters have been bred at the Burton 

 Agnes stud, among them prize-winners, but only a few hunter 

 brood mares are kept here. 



