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There have been many modern horses in Leices- 

 tershire little if at all inferior to those whose fame 

 Nimrod made European some thirty years ago. 

 Since then Mr. Little Gilmour has gloried in his 

 cow-hocked, or, as some style him, sickle-hocked 

 horse, Vingt-et-un, who was, nevertheless, only a 

 shade better than his present grey. The latter has 

 been lately christened " Lord Grey ;" and with his 

 owner's sixteen-stone hamper on his back, he beat 

 every one out last season in a very fast thing from 

 Sproxton Thorns to Harby. Lord Gardner, who 

 still adheres to his great axiom of never racing 

 to catch hounds, has never been better carried than 

 by his king of the hog-manes, Dun Clown by Ama- 

 dis; and besides Brush, Asmodeus, Pilot, Gipsey 

 King, and Varnish, &c., he has fgone especially well 

 on a Whalebone chesnut and three bays by Mulatto, 

 Brutandorf, and Jack Spigot. Mr. Greene has had 

 three especial favourites, the grey mare who was 

 popularly known as the Timber-mare, from her won- 

 derful cleverness in that department of hunting 

 science, Mrs. Caudle, and Piccolo ; and although the 

 latter was only fourteen-two, he was not to be beaten 

 over a strong country. None of them were, however, 

 so good as his bay mare, "the swallow on a summer's 

 evening," and at water she was far beyond them all. 

 Lord Cardigan's best horse was The Dandy, but he 

 died from check perspiration on the afternoon of a 

 run, in which he swam the Wreake. It was on this 

 magnificent black that his Lordship led the field 

 from Lord Aylesford's cover in the Six Hills country 

 to Ilanksborough in the Cottesmore thirteen miles 

 as the crow would fly in an hour and five minutes, 

 and never drawing rein but for three minutes, when 

 the hounds checked in Stapleford Park. Lord Wa- 

 terford killed his 300-guinea, but somewhat under- 

 bred, Dusty Miller in his second or third run, and 

 never went better in his Melton days than he did on 



