IN THE NORTH COUNTEEE. 



CHAPTER I. 



MALTON TO WIT. 



Malton as a Sporting Centre— Agnes and her 

 Descendants — The Newstead Stud Farm — Queen 

 Mary — Haricot — Caller Ou — Blink Bonny's Leger 

 — Blair Athol — Breadalbane and Broomielaw — 

 Bandore — The Sale of the Blink Bonny Stud — 

 DoNCASTER Purchases — Highfield Triumphs — 

 Castor and Hambledon — Some Good-Looking Year- 

 lings. 



At once, from thirty thousand throats 



Rushes the Yorkshire roar, 

 And the name of the Northern winner floats 



A league from the course and more. 



Perhaps the most sporting little town in the 

 whole of England is Malton, the Newmarket of 

 the North ; and if flat racing can no longer bo 

 carried on in its precincts, owing to its time- 

 honoured racecourse being ploughed out, the 

 sporting inhabitants liave a successful steeple- 

 chase meetino- over Mr. I'Anson's farm at Hisfh- 

 field, and save in one particular it takes quite a 

 lead in the world of sport. Hunting is carried 



