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ing turn. Mr Charles Symonds and Mr. Wheeler, 

 of Oxford, deal exclusively in hacks and hunters, but 

 the former seldom attends any other fairs than Horn- 

 castle and Lincoln, and purchases elsewhere through 

 a commissioner. He horses Jem Hills and his whips 

 during the Heythrop season, and sends the horses 

 they have ridden up to TattersalFs each May. His 

 stables are well known to every Oxford visitor as 

 one of the most perfect things of the kind, and are 

 quite as orthodox in their management and appear- 

 ance as the venerable Alma Mater herself. 



Reverting once more to the North, we cannot pass 

 over Mr. Robson, of Newcastle, and Mr. John Woffin- 

 den, of Malton, who buy extensively from breeders. 

 Like the beau monde, the turf, and the bar, the horse- 

 dealing profession has its " D'Orsay," whom it is not 

 our intention further to indicate. The Messrs. Colton, 

 of Eagle Hall and North Collingham, and Mr. Raw- 

 linson, of Brant Broughton, near Newark, are in a 

 very extensive way, and the former perhaps sell as 

 many horses as any firm in the course of the year, 

 a large proportion of which are Irish, and specially 

 imported by themselves. Mr. Nat. Welton, of 

 Bredfield, in Suffolk, (where Mr. N. G. Barthrupp 

 heads the poll as abreeder of cart-horses) does business 

 almost exclusively with Mr. Collins ; and, as graziers 

 and breeders of embryo Clinkers and Clashers, no 

 names rank higher in Lincolnshire than Welfitt of 

 Louth, Fowler of Kirton Grange, Greetham of Stain- 

 field Hall, the Slaters of Commeringham and North 

 Carlton, Bartholemew of Goltho, Nainby of Bar- 

 noldby, Brooks of Croxby, and Chambers of Reasby 

 Hall ; nor in Yorkshire than the Maynards of Harl- 

 sey, Hall of Scorboro', and Wood of South Dalton. 

 The three last-named graze carriage horses as well 

 as hunters. Mr. Hall is the master of the Hol- 

 derness Hunt, and grazes from sixty to seventy 

 young hunters and carriage horses annually in the 



