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Harry Dimsdales. The stock of the latter (who was 

 named after the mock Mayor of Garrett) were much 

 prized in Leicestershire, and their peculiar charac- 

 teristics of a beautiful dapple -grey, broad backs, 

 pointed Arab-like heads, and orange-shaped quarters, 

 are still to be traced to the third generation. Some 

 would have it that he was a bit of a roarer ; but at all 

 events Mr. Maxserode 15 stone on him over Leices- 

 tershire for some seasons, and Dick Christian had 

 but little fault to find with him. We looked care- 

 fully over a large field last season, and could find 

 nothing of the hunting stamp of an almost superan- 

 nuated son of Old President, whose stock, with their 

 fine brown skins and still finer tempers, have jumped 

 magnificently time out of mind. As regards the 

 second point we could almost say of them as Captain 

 Barclay used to say of his friend Cribb (i That's 

 the beauty of Tom you can't make him cross hit 

 him where and how you like you'll never meddle 

 with his temper/' Camillus, who first spread the 

 stud fame of Hambletonian, was also the sire of 

 some rare talent in this line, and so were Old Wolds- 

 man, Grog, and the renowned Tramp, who was not 

 a big but a very even horse. His stock had remark- 

 ably fine hunting action, and we have often heard 

 Will Danby recount how his favourite son of Tramp 

 carried him twenty miles to cover one day, when he 

 whipped-in to the Holderness ; went through a very 

 fast thing of fifty minutes and home again ; heard the 

 whaw-hoop in two runs, one of them of forty and the 

 other of an hour and fifteen minutes next day, and 

 eighteen miles home to kennel at night ; and then 

 ask, like a true-born tyke Can any of your South 

 Country horses beat that ? In fact, he thought this 

 horse better than even his President mare of four 

 hours and twenty minutes memory in the York hunt. 

 Orvile, Grey Orvile, Grey Walton, Sandbeck, 

 Emilian, Young Phantom, Cervantes, and Cerberus, 



