250 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



neighbourhood of Beverley. At the York show, in 

 1853; he exhibited twelve hunters of his own grazing, 

 valued at 200 guineas each, which were allowed even 

 by his critical countrymen to be perfect gems. Lord 

 Henry Bentinck has, exclusive of kennel hacks, 

 about 55 horses at Lincoln during the hunting sea- 

 son, and not a few of them have an early remem- 

 brance of Mr. H all's pasture land, from which, in 

 some instances, they have been transferred for a 400- 

 guinea consideration. The Leicestershire hunting 

 men have begun to buy their horses more directly 

 out of the farmers' hands ; and Burbidge of Thorpe 

 Arnold, Sikes of Tilton, Simpkin of Hoby, Wright of 

 Burton, and John Wood of Market Overton, have 

 been of late among the luckiest sellers. 



The lengthy short-legged stamp of hunter, slow 

 over grass, but great over plough and strong fences, 

 is gradually becoming very rare. No horses sell so 

 well when they can be found, and their rarity may 

 in a great measure be owing to the fact that blood- 

 horses of this build are generally not successful in 

 the T.Y.C. or one-mile races which are now in vogue 

 and are therefore cut, or sold to the foreigners very 

 early in the day. They are not quick on their legs, 

 and get quite overset if they are hurried in the first 

 half-mile, though they have perpetual motion enough 

 to " bring back" the majority of horses to them over 

 a T.M.M. or a D.I. course. We have always re- 

 gretted that The Ban, who was quite the " Admirable 

 Crichton" of this type of horse, should ever have 

 been sent abroad. The muscular loined Inheritor 

 (who always kicked fearfully in his exercise) was cast 

 in another mould, but was still a magnificent model 

 for a hunter sire. Weathergage would have suited 

 lengthy mares to a nicety; and Peep-o'-Day-Boy, in 

 spite of his bad pasterns, was after our own heart, as 

 he had a very perfect, and not too lengthy a barrel, 

 and presented to the eye that best of all combina- 



