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MR. LOCKLEY. 



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selling his horses as often as he. could. He had a thorough- 

 bred horse called Confidence, before mentioned as sold for 

 a great price; he had bought it for 100 guineas, and sold it 

 first to Lord Sefton for 000 guineas, and eventually bought 

 it again. 



Mr. Bradley, a noted hoi'sedealer, Avho lived at New- 

 bold, near Shipston, was one of the best of riders, and made 

 liis own horses and sold them well. He was generally 

 known as " Hunter-making Harry." On one occasion he 



( IIXKIDENCE. 



had sold a horse at the end of a brilliant run, and when the 

 purchaser complained that he could not ride liim, Mr. 



Worcester by Cromwell, and he was concealed for a time in Boscobel House. Mr. 

 Lockley's father weighed iSst., and he himself, by training, reduced his weight from 

 I7st. to L'ist. Kllb. He constantly hunted with Sir E. Lyttleton's hounds on Cannock 

 Chase when tlie meet was at daybreak, and afterwards with Lord Talbot's hounds on 

 the other tide of tlie Trent during the remainder of the day. The late Mr. Stubbs 

 always prefaced his accoun's of runs wiih Sir E. Lyttleton's houcds by saying, " 1 

 breakfasted with Lockley at twelve o'clock at night.' Three times in one year Mr. 

 Lockley rode the same horse from Newmarket to his own house, being 104 miles, in 

 one day ; and a galloway from his house at Northampton and back again the same 

 evening, a distance of 120 miles. He, at the age of seventy-three, left his own house 

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