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his lordship) ; Tenerchiffe, by Smolensko ; Camel- 

 leopard, by Don Quixote ; and a Quiterza mare, by 

 Cervantes, for which he refused Lord Exeter's offer of a 

 thousand guineas, when his hounds met one morning 

 near Burleigh. The latter had no luck in breeding, 

 and kicked her first foaPs eye out. Confederate was 

 another of the Earl's well-known sires, but his 

 stock were nearly all roarers, and his career was 

 cut short by a kick from a recusant mare. Sandbeck 

 was unfortunately sold for ninety guineas when his 

 fame as a hunter-sire was unmade; and Humphrey 

 Clinker (the sire of Melbourne), a fine big close- 

 ribbed short-backed fellow, with a trifle too much 

 leg, but a splendid middle-piece, also left for Ire- 

 land, and was bought back shortly after by the late 

 Mr. Allen, of Malton, the Earl's agent, for himself 

 Zara was by Camel-leopard out of an Amadis mare, 

 and it was upon her that Tom Sebright finished his 

 celebrated Hunt's Closes run in 1837, when the grey 

 horse on which he commenced threw a shoe. The 

 late Lords Liverpool and Milton were both out that 

 day ; and Mr. J. Walker, of Eaton, also went wonder- 

 fully well on an Amadis mare. When Bedford was 

 past, the veteran Mr. Magniac called to Sebright, 

 " Why, Tom, we're going to London" ; and Tom, 

 whose mare could now hardly raise a trot, made re- 

 ply, " Yes, sir, I think we're driving on that way." 

 Only six, including Sebright, who got first to the 

 hounds, saw the finish of this run, of which the fol- 

 lowing is the official account :-r- 



"The meet was at Bythorn Toll-bar. We tried and found a fox 

 at Raund's Meadow, ran him a ring of twenty minutes, and then a 

 second ring of fifteen minutes. The hounds were then stopped and 

 taken away, as we were afraid of spoiling a good day's sport with 

 bad foxes. We then trotted off to Hunt's Closes, when a good fox 

 was found immediately, and went away in view ; ran by Covington, 

 leaving Dean village on the left and Swineshead on the right, through 

 the Wood and Keyso Park, over Thurleigh parish by the Gorse, and 

 through the spinneys to Ravensden Grange. Here, owing to an un- 

 fortunate view, the hounds ran their fox heel way. and could not be 



