34 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. \ms 



Bradley replied, " I regret, sir, you cannot ride him ; but 

 r only sold the horse, F cannot sell the rider.""' His 

 nonpareil boy, Harry, was still a greater artist than his 

 master ; for it is admitted three good runs under his tuition 

 would complete the education of a hunter, even for Lord 

 Jersey. Bradley had generally sixty or seventy hunters in 

 his stable, and his superior riding has sold many horses at 

 good prices to gentlemen who had joined the Hunt. One 

 (lav he got a very bad fall, and lay insensible on the ground. 

 Several of the sportsmen stopped to assist him, and on 

 being bled he recovered, and was taken home. Wlien 

 Bradley got quite well, and the danger of the accident was 

 partly forgotten, his friends used to tell him that after he 

 fell no one of the company had any instrument in his 

 pocket to bleed him, and that a journeyman carjDenter, who 

 came up by chance with a basket of tools on his back, 

 opened the vein with a gimblet ! Bradley laughed as 

 heartily as any of his acquaintances at this joke. 



Extract from "Nimrod's Hunting Tours." 



One of the hardest riders which Warwickshire has had to boast of is Mr. 

 EdAvard Gale Moraut, who resided for many years at Upton House, near 

 Edge Hill, one of the seats of the Earl of Jersey, where he kept a clever 

 pack of harriers, to amuse himself with on the intermediate days. Mr. Morant 

 is an old Meltouian, and one of the heroes of the Billesdon Coplow. I cannot 

 call him a fine horseman, hut as a determined rider over a country he has few 

 equals, and no man in Enofland would beat liiin for fifteen minutes when 

 hounds run very hard, or for fifteen hours if his horses could carry him so 

 long, as he has strength for any exertion, and nerve for any fence. It is, 

 however, " the pace that kills," and this Mr. Morant has too often proved, for 

 so liriskly does he put them along that he never had but one hunter that could 

 carry him through a run of an hour. 



at twelve o'clock one day, was at the fight of Spring and Neate, at Andover, by one 

 o'clock the next day, rode home with " Nimrod " to his house after the fight, and was in 

 London by four o'clock on the third day, making 162 miles on the same horse in fifty- 

 two hours. His thoroughbred horse, Confidence, was eventually, after being bought 

 back by him from Lord Sefton, sold to Mr Best for 750 guineas three seasons after- 

 wards. He hunted for eighteen seasons, only once being lame. He had the power of 

 a caithoise and the docility of a lap dog. Confidence was sold by auction at North- 

 ampton in his twenty-second year for 100?. Mr. Lockley, during the first mile of a 

 severe run in March, 1829, <:ot a fall, and, though bleeding profusely from the nose, 

 both eyes, and internally, he not only refused to quit the field, but afterwards rode a 

 distance of .'■ixteen miles to Audnam, near Stourbridge, the residence of Mr. W. Graze- 

 brook, and intended to hunt on the following Friday. He, however, became worse, 

 and died in the seventy-ninth year of his age. 

 * He certainly sold the purchaser ! 



