256 CLEVELAXI) BAYS. 



horses and mares on hand, and has owned some 

 very useful stallions at times. He also deals in 

 hackneys and thoroughbreds, and bought The 

 Viking- and several mares at Sir Charles Strick- 

 land's sale in 1887 for the Portuguese government. 

 The Marquis of Orego has also bought some famous 

 hunters from him for the King of Italy, and the 

 farm at Scampston may be taken as being a 

 thoroughly representative Yorkshire Stud and 

 dealing farm. 



In the Yorkshire Showyards there is no figure 

 better known than that of Mr. Kirby, the quaint 

 and humorous occupier of Burton Fields House, 

 near Stamford Bridge. Full of anecdote, and 

 ever ready to tell a good story, he is one of the 

 keenest judges of a Coach horse that enters fair or 

 market, and he and his head groom Billy are always 

 to be found where good prizes are to be picked 

 up. A famous man to show a horse is Billy, 

 watching his horse apparently with stolid indif- 

 ference, but all the time having a look at the 

 judges out of the corner of his eye. And when 

 those gentlemen come to look over Billy's exhibit, 

 they are sure to find him looking his best, and 

 they may rely upon it that whilst they are judging 

 the horse, Billy is judging them. 



Like Mr. Lett, Mr. Kirby does a large export 

 trade, and occasionally sells a hackney or two, 

 but he never has anything to do with cart horses 

 or hunters, the former of Avhich he lias no taste 



