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great pleasure to give my opinion upon a subject that your clever and highly 

 appreciative pen has long since madeamatter generally known to the sporting 

 and horse-keeping xjuhlic, namely, that as a practical horse manager, a first- 

 rate judge, and a clever salesman, not easily " done ! " you have certainly no 

 superior that I have ever met. 



I remain, my dear Hunt, 



Yours very truly, 



JOHN GOING, 

 Master Tipperary Fox Rounds. 



From the Most Noble The Maequis of Waterfoed, Master of Fox Hounds, 



Curraglmiore. 

 Dear Hunt, — Dick Butler has asked me to write you a line as to my opinion 

 of your competency for the arduous profession the loss of your estate has 

 compelled you to adopt. From my long acquaintance with you, both when I 

 hunted your county and since, I can say that you are thoroughly practical in 

 horse matters, and that I have great faith in your birth and antecedents 

 operating to preserve you in the only true road to success — perfect straight- 

 forwardness with the English public. I heartily wish you success. I like 

 yom- 2)lucJc in not being beaten by hard luck. 



Very faithfully yours, 



WATERFORD. 



From the Master of the Curraghmore Fox-Iiounds. 

 Tinvane-Carrick-on-Suir, 



2«^ March, 1861. 

 Dear Sir, — I have great pleasure in stating that I employed you to purchase 

 me a stallion, for stud purposes, unseen by me, and upon your wi-itteu descrip- 

 tion. I was very much pleased with him when he arrived from England, and 

 your description was perfectly accurate, though cautious. You might with 

 justice have recommended more highly than you did. Since this transaction 

 I have been benefitted by your agency (you having sold " Field Marshal " 

 forme at a " big figure"), and I have entrusted you with a commission for 

 another stud horse, as I am well pleased with your agency, both selling and 

 buying for me, and have implicit reliance in your good faith and unquestion- 

 ably sound judgment. 



I may add to this testimonial that I have known you for a long time as a 

 highly respectable gentleman, representing one of the most honoured and 

 aristocratic families in your native county, where you inherited a fine old 

 Beat and large property. 



Believe me to be, dear Sir, faithfully yours, 



HENRY W. BRISCOE, 

 Master Curraghmore Fox-Hounds . 



From Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., Master of Fox-Hounds. 

 Dear Sir, — I know you very well. I have enjoyed pleasant sport in your 

 company in Ireland. I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to you as a 

 gentleman, a good sportsman, and an unusually fine horseman, and judge of a 

 horse. 



Truly yours, 



RICHARD SUTTON. 



From Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. 



Dear Sir, — You were introduced to me by Honourable Col. Cholmondley 

 (my son-in-law), who said you were a good judge of horses. From your 

 remarks and answers to my questions when inspecting my stud, I think so too. 



Yours truly, 



TATTON SYKES. 



