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that any one of them might justly have been 

 termed the raind Rhone. His Lordship had the 

 smartness and quickness so essential in a tho- 

 roughly good dragsman. 



Four such horses as Lord Grantley's were 

 never put together in the days I write of — they 

 were in every sense of the word matchless. 

 They were purchased at four years old in York- 

 shire, and stood nearly seventeen hands high, 

 the colour Arabian grey, with black manes 

 and tails. This was the only admissible case 

 of switch tails ; the size and figure of those 

 splendid animals were a sufficient reason for 

 their not being docked. The drag was not a 

 drag, it was an old tub of a family car- 

 riage, unworthy the beautiful horses his Lord- 

 ship drove. 



Lord Suffield was the quickest and smartest 

 coachman I ever sat on the box with, and never 

 shall I forget a journey I took with him to 

 Newmarket to attend the July Meeting. We 

 started from " Grillon's Hotel" in Albemarle 

 Street, where his Lordship resided, with four 

 as nice cattle as ever the lover of driving could 

 wish to sit behind ; but upon reaching the first 

 stage I found, to my dismay, that we were to 

 proceed with posters for the rest of the journey. 



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