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was no ordinary sight to see her carry Mr. John 

 Massey Stanley, who must have ridden full seventeen 

 stone, in the front rank over the stiffest part of 

 Cheshire, for five-and-thirty minutes, till she was ab- 

 solutely beaten to a standstill by the size of the 

 fences and the weight and stick-at-nothing style of 

 her rider. 



At the time (1811) that Will Danby, now of the 

 Hurworth, who ' ' has hunted every corner of York- 

 shire, from Spurn Point to Westmoreland, and from 

 the German Ocean to Derbyshire," during his long 

 and honourable career, first sported his boots and 

 spurs under the late Duke of Leeds, his lordship's 

 stud principally consisted of the stock of Pandolpho. 

 This horse was the sire of Mowbray, and a long series 

 of some of the very best hunters that the Yorkshire- 

 men ever crossed. When Will joined his Grace 

 there were no less than fourteen hunters by him in 

 the Duke's stables, all equally good, and up to heavy 

 weights in the longest day. They were Pan, Pande- 

 mic, Panada, Paiiadian, Panegyric, Pandora, Pan- 

 dolpha, Pancake, Jenny, Jacky, Mitchell, Dolly 

 Mitchell, Young Mary, and another. It was on 

 Pandora that Will finished almost alone on that 

 complete Billesden Coplow day, when they found a 

 fox at Howe Bank, and ran him out of Wensleydale 

 into Swaledale, and killed him at Craik Pot, after a 

 burster of three hours ; while the great Applegarth 

 Scaur day, when they found above Richmond and 

 went right away into Westmoreland, fell to Young 

 Mary's lot. Pandolpho's stock were well repre- 

 sented in all the Yorkshire hunts, and the fourteen 

 fetched very long prices when the Duke went abroad. 

 Among other hunting-sires in Yorkshire during the 

 present century, Screveton, by Highflyer, is entitled 

 to a very high place, and the blood of his half-brother, 

 Sir Peter Teazle, has been as well-known in the field 

 as on the turf, and most especially through the Sir 



