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his stock as it was rather later on of Sir Malagigi's, 

 which had, one and all, very dubious tempers. This 

 own brother to Sir Marinel was a loose-built style of 

 horse, and it was difficult to say why the Lincoln- 

 shire men took such a fancy to him for two or three 

 seasons. His owner was wont to boast that the 

 proceeds of one of them was 400 gs. in two-guinea 

 fees, and that he carried every stiver of the money 

 home with him when he took the horse back across 

 the Humber to his winter quarters in Holderness ! 

 It was from a Brocklesby draft filly by him that Mr. 

 John Richardson, of Horkstow, near Barton, bred 

 Peter Simple, and at one or two Horncastle fairs his 

 stock showed in such force, that he was unanimously 

 pronounced quite the premier among sires. 



Nailer was the best Quicksilver that rare hunts- 

 man, the late Will Smith ever rode. He was a 

 good-looking chesnut, and in spite of his family 

 failing, gentle in WilFs hands, though sadly violent 

 with every one else. Even under Will, he always 

 feinted to pull, and went with his head turned almost 

 to his rider's toe ; but he made himself an old horse 

 long before his time, by his intemperate style in the 

 field : flying small drains as if they were six-barred 

 gates, in the most unorthodox or rather un-Holder- 

 ness style. The blood was much liked by the 

 Woldsmen ; and the Prince of Wales, through Mat 

 Milton, gave the present Mr. Richard Nainby of 

 Barnoldby (whose eldest son Charles has no superior 

 in the Brocklesby hunting field) 400 gs. for a bay 

 gelding by him, which was bred by Mr. Phillipson, 

 of Bradley. Sir Harry, who was by Spartacus, and 

 bred by the first Lord Yarborough, was after all 

 Will's crack horse deep-bodied and short, with 

 wonderful elastic action, and as wild -looking as an 

 untamed Arab. 



The late Mr. Richardson, of Limber, had, however, 

 the honour of breedingPloughboyby Hippomenes, and 



