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health compelled him to give up hunting, 

 when he was sold into Leicestershire. Mr. 

 Darley also bought Topthorn, and sold him to 

 Mr. Edmund Lloyd, who was very partial to 

 him, and at the sale of that gentleman's horses, 

 after the disastrous accident at Newby Ferry, he 

 brought the handsome price of 410 guineas. 



Primus was also a good show horse of Mr. 

 Lett's, and amongst other prizes he took he won 

 at the Yorkshire. Then he had Landlord, a very 

 useful horse too, and the winner of a good many 

 prizes. But the best hunters he ever owned were 

 probably Landlady and Coquette, a very formid- 

 able couple to belong to one stable at the same time. 



Landlady was a chesnut mare by the Baron, 

 out of Lady Angela by Angelus, and was bred 

 by Mr. W. H. Cholmley. She stood fully 16h. 

 lin., and had wonderfully nice action. Mr. Lett 

 gave £90 for her as a two-year-old, and sold her 

 soon afterwards for £100. Her new owner tired 

 of her, and re-sold her to Mr. Lett for £105 in 

 the early part of the year in which she was four 

 year old. This was a lucky purchase, as she won 

 him prizes innumerable before she was sold to 

 Mr. Budgett to go to Italy. 



But good as Landlady undoubtedly was, it 

 will be generally conceded that Coquette was 

 better. If not clean thoroughbred"' like her stable 



* Coquette was by The Mallard, out of a steeplechase mare by 

 Strathern, belongiug to Mr. Coulson, of Castle Howard. 



