254 CLEVELAND BAYS. 



companion, she showed as much quality, and was 

 a very fast mare. Several men went to look at 

 her when she was three years old, but they hung 

 off a bit, and when Mr. Lett went he got her 

 for the mere acknowledgment of £29. She was 

 not in very good condition and took a bit of 

 getting ready for the show season, but when she 

 was ready she made a clean sweep of everything, 

 and was nevei' beaten as a three-year-old. She 

 won at the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire shows, 

 and prizes innumerable fell to her lot all over the 

 country. She was second at the Royal at York 

 to MajorThwaites' " Royal Monarch," a decision 

 which many thought might have been reversed 

 with advantage. Landlady and she also took 

 prizes on the same day at the Cleveland, York- 

 shire, and Darlington shows. After the Royal 

 at York in 1883 Mr. Lett sold her for 300 

 guineas, and bought her back again for a brood 

 mare in the autumn of 1887. 



We were pleased to see the old mare back at 

 her old quarters, and very new she looked, and 

 as gay and corky in her action as ever when she 

 was run out for us to have a look at. 



It was at Scarborough where Mr. Lett first 

 became acquainted with Mr. George E. Brown, 

 of Aurora, Illinois, the first large customer he 

 had for Cleveland Bays and Coach-horses ; and 

 the connection formed some seventeen or eighteen 

 years ago has continued without a break until the 



