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cornered mare in appearance. The other that 

 carried Miss Gertrude Heathcote for nine seasons 

 was Janette, named after the Oaks winner of this 

 year, and she was better known as "the Belvoir 

 Hunt pony," measuring but fifteen hands. Nearly 



THE KINO OF THE PACK. 



thoroughbred, she was very fast and could stay 

 from morning to night, jumping some of the 

 biggest fences in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire 

 during her career. The faithful groom who 

 followed these ladies three and four days a week, 

 and had to ride up to them, was William Freeman, 

 often mounted on a small dark-brown mare, named 



