204 HUNTING ROUND MALTUN. 



the Yorkshire Show in 1885, 188G, and 1887, 

 and second this year (1888). He also won at the 

 Royal both last year and this, and in the opinion 

 of many of the byestanders at Huddersfield should 

 have been scored his fourth consecutive win at 

 the Yorkshire Show. He is a beautifully turned 

 horse, all quality and with plenty of substance, 

 and his action in his gallop is free and sweeping. 



Old Empress," the dam of Emperor II., a horse 

 that won the Grand National Hunt Steeplechase 

 for Mr. Chaplin, in the hands of that accomjDlished 

 horseman, Mr. Alec. Goodman, in 1863, is 

 another of the Birdsall matrons we looked on 

 with great interest. She is a strong mare, wdth 

 good back and loins, very deep through her 

 heart, with big Hat hocks and famous thighs. 

 Her muscular quarters and beautiful hind leg 

 action looked like getting over a big country, and 

 we were not surprised to learn that she was a 

 very big juniper in her day. 



Then there is a typical hunting brood mare in 

 Verbena, an aged brown mare by Morocco, a son 

 of King Tom, dam by Loutherbourgh, grandam 

 by Sir Richard Sutton's The Friar, and thorough- 

 bred, save for the latter cross. She has beauti- 

 ful shoulders, is deep through her heart, and a 

 good width ; and with her good back and loins 

 and fine quality, she gives one that idea of 



*Emprcss is by Record, out of Nancy, a mare Sir George 

 Cliolmley bought at Tattersalls', without a pedigree. 



