236 CAPT. Johnstone's hounds and country. 



substance, and was rough about his hocks, but he 

 had famous shoulders and a good back and 

 capital thighs and gaskins. Although he did 

 not look like it he was a famous horse both to 

 gallop and jump, and Mr. Darrell was so con- 

 fident of his chance that he told all his friends 

 he should win, and it is gratifying to know that 

 the old horse did not run * loose.' He had had 

 many a good trial in the hunting field with him, 

 but thought that scarcely good enough for a 

 steeplechase trial, so he put Pinkney, who was 

 in receij^t of lOlbs., on a thoroughbred one 

 that was pretty smart, and tried them over four 

 miles of country, with the result that the old horse 

 won by a field. 



The pedigree of the horse makes his perform- 

 ance all the more wonderful, for he is by Lincoln,"^' 

 off a cart mare, of whose pedigree there is no 

 record. That there must have been some good 

 breeding farther back is unquestionable, for horses 

 bred in this way are not to be found amongst 

 winners of steeplechases, and perhaps if we knew 

 as much of his pedigree as we do about the 

 pedigree of Rakeaway t we should find some of 

 the best running blood on the Turf amongst 

 his not very remote ancestors. 



Mr. James Darrell is well known all over 

 Yorkshire as a good judge of a hunter and an 



■■''Lincoln by Ely, out of sister to Little Lady, by Orlando. 

 + See Chapter viii. 



