SOME FAMOUS PLAYERS AND PONIES 341 



a wonderful performer, will be remembered in polo history as 

 having fetched the highest price ever given for a polo pony, 

 viz. 300 gs. One of the stable companions of Patch, and every 

 whit as good, is Piper, own brother to Mr. Frank Mildmay's 

 Picquet, a beautiful chestnut with whom it would be difficult to 

 find fault. With powerful quarters, great thighs and hocks, and 

 capital shoulders added to his many other good points, he looks 

 a hunter in miniature, and one on which a light-weight might 

 see every yard of a run, even in the stiffest country. 



A thoroughbred pony Dancing Girl, by Sefton. 



Two former celebrities of Mr. Kenyon Stow's were a rare- 

 shaped Welsh pony named Cinderella, who now is at Lord 

 Harrington's stud, and who, in spite of having lost an eye 

 through an accident at lemon-cutting, still played most won- 

 derfully ; and Bullfighter, also a Welsh mare, the very model of 

 a pony, and now also at the stud at Elvaston. Devoted to the 

 game, and a welcome addition to any team, Mr. Kenyon Stow 

 has done much to further the cause of polo in the provinces, 



