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ordered her to be bought for her for 100 guineas, in 

 consequence of having been bred by her father. She 

 was a mean little mare, with none of the appearance 

 of the thorough-bred, about fifteen hands high, tail 

 low set on, extraordinarily wide in the hips, and in 

 at the elbows. Except when in constant work, and 

 rather fine in condition, she carried her saddle on her 

 shoulders, and her action was perfect both with fore 

 and hind legs. She was about twenty years old 

 when she threw Banter to Master Henry, who was 

 bred by Mr. Lechmere Charlton in the Ludlow 

 country, and through this foal she became grandam 

 to Touchstone and Launcelot, and great grandam 

 to Satirist. Camel, the sire of the two former, was 

 supposed to be the quickest of the Whalebones, but 

 he was generally lame, and his real form was never 

 known. Touchstone's old Eaton friend, Pantaloon, 

 had not many half-bred mares while he was at Caw- 

 ston paddocks, but The Clown of Melton steeple- 

 chase fame was one of the produce. Cattonite has 

 also left some powerful but coarse stock in Warwick- 

 shire, where the Black Princes and Retrievers are 

 coming forward. The chesnut is one of the neatest 

 of the neat, and the black-brown, a son of Touch- 

 stone and Queen of Trumps, takes especially after 

 the male side of his house in look, and is blessed 

 with a gentle temper and a rare barrel, though his 

 legs are hardly so stout timbered as we expected to 

 see them. Their neighbour Meteor will have a hard 

 task to follow Belzoni, and if his stock grow up like 

 himself, great bone and power, combined with plainish 

 foreheads, Roman noses, and chesnut skins, will not 

 perish out of the neighbourhood of Lutterworth, 

 $Yom the sires which the Duke of Richmond, the 

 late Lord Egremont, and Sir John Shelley brought 

 into the county, the principal jumping blood of Sussex 

 is derived; and Gohanna, Grey Skim, and Whale- 

 bone were only three out of a host which all tenanted 



