256 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



Jupiters, Melibceus by Meliboeus, and Plynlimmon 

 by The Colonel, are still among the other pleasant 

 memories of his great hunting career. If we mis- 

 take not, Mr. Mytton's The Duchess was a prima 

 donna among the scions of Hit-and-miss, who was, 

 like Herbert Lacy, quite a Shropshire worthy ; and 

 Fitzjames, whose stock were all bad-tempered, never 

 got a superior to the " Squire of Halston's *' Arm- 

 chair. Mr H. Clive of Styche's Annette was also a 

 gay feather in Strephon's cap, when it was no easy 

 task for a man to hold his own with Will and his 

 cover- side cavalry. Well may we hear the horses, 

 and the men who rode them, arid raced them towards 

 The Wrekin as their gigantic winning-chair, still 

 household words among the " proud Salopians " \ 

 Those were the days when Lord Hill " on Paddy of 

 Paddies the wonder " ; John Arthur Lloyd on Grena- 

 dier ; Smith Owen on Lop, or " Banker so honest a 

 trader, he pays draughts at sight without any per- 

 suader"; Lyster, "king of light weights, on The 

 Doe ;" and countless others who live in the ballad, 

 were all in the foremost flight ; and when " The 

 Curate rough-riding the Rector was seen," or else 

 " with his coat buttoned up, and his tongue very 

 still," earned the poet's praise as 



" First in the field and dashing away, 

 Taking all in his stroke on Gehazi the grey." 



Smoker, whose stock have often rather coarse heads 

 and not the best of hocks, belongs to Montgomery- 

 shire, where breeding has been rather flashy than 

 sound for some time past. Its horses were but little 

 tested at home, as their fine look attracted the dealers, 

 who pounced on them and made " swimmers" of them 

 forthwith ; and several of those that did stay on this 

 side the Channel had their weak places found out. 

 A well-informed writer in the Sporting Review* states 

 the case much more favourably for the breeders of 

 * January, 1857. 



