298 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



won the steeple-chase at St. Alban's, whose tutelary 

 saint he quite ousted for the time being. He never 

 reached a higher figure than 200 guineas, as his 

 speed was far inferior to his great raking style at a 

 fence, and he was fired and very tender on both his 

 front legs. Cigar was also fully sixteen hands high, 

 and won, in Mr. Anderson^ hands, the only 100- 

 guinea sweepstakes ever run across country. Four- 

 teen stone was about his mark, but Lord South- 

 ampton (who bought two three-hundred greys from 

 Sir Harry Goodricke) gave Mr. Anderson 300 gui- 

 neas for him after he retired from the steeple-chase 

 world, and rode seventeen stone on him for three 

 seasons. He then came into his old owner's hands 

 again, but he never mounted him, and had him mer- 

 cifully shot soon after, rather than let him down in 

 the world, after such faithful service. 



The greatest riding period with the Quom is ge- 

 nerally allowed to be that of Lords Jersey, Germaine, 

 and Forester, and Messrs. Cholmondeley (afterwards 

 Lord Delamere), Assheton Smith, Lindow, &c. Of 

 Mr. Lindow and his twin- brother, Mr. Rawlinson, 

 who was as famous over Leicestershire on Spread 

 Eagle as he was on the turf with Coronation, it used 

 to be said that the latter' s riding was better for his 

 horse, but that the former sold his horses better. 

 One well-known character used to come out of the 

 fen district at intervals, with his nags in the primest 

 order, and only attended the picked Quorn meets, for 

 the purpose of riding them for sale, in which he was 

 eminently successful. During the summer months- 

 he did a little quiet touting ; and we think it was 

 Lord Charles Somerset who, after drawing all the 

 covers bordering on the B.M. unsuccessfully, caught 

 him lying in a crop of coleseed, close by the spot, 

 where a great trial was to come off. This break-up 

 of the Meltonian outsider's touting habits long 

 ranked with the stories of how the spy who lay in 



