Breeding of Hunters* 239 



the kind, and are quite as orthodox in their manage- 

 ment and appearance as the venerable Alma Mater 

 herself. 



Reverting once more to the North, we cannot pass 

 over Mr. Robson, of Newcastle, and Mr. John Woffin- 

 den, of Malton, who buy extensively from breeders. 

 Like the beau monde, the turf, and the bar, the horse- 

 dealing profession has its " D'Orsay," whom it is not 

 our intention further to indicate. The Messrs. Colton, 

 of Eagle Hall and North Collingham, and Mr. Raw- 

 linson, of Brant Broughton, near Newark, are in a 

 very extensive way, and the former perhaps sell as 

 many horses as any firm in the course of the year, a 

 large proportion of which are Irish, and specially 

 imported by themselves. Mr. Nat Welton, of Bred- 

 field, in Suffolk (where Mr. N. G. Barthrupp heads 

 the poll as a breeder of cart-horses) does business 

 almost exclusively with Mr. Collins ; and, as graziers 

 and breeders of embryo Clinkers and Clashers, no 

 names rank higher in Lincolnshire than Welfitt of 

 Louth, Fowler of Kirton Grange, Greetham of Stain- 

 field Hall, the Slaters of Commeringham and North 

 Carlton, Bartholomew of Goltho, Nainby of Bar- 

 noldby, Brooks of Croxby, and Chambers of Reasby 

 Hall ; nor in Yorkshire than the Maynards of Harl- 

 sey, Hall of Scarboro', and Wood of South Dalton. 

 The three last-named graze carnage horses as well as 

 hunters. Mr. Hall is the master of the Holderness 

 Hunt, and grazes from sixty to seventy young hunters 

 and carriage horses annually in the neighbourhood of 

 Beverley. At the York show, in 1853, ne exhibited 

 twelve hunters of his own grazing, valued at 200 

 guirieas each, which were allowed, even by his critical 

 countrymen, to be perfect gems. Lord Henry Ben- 

 tinck had, exclusive of kennel hacks, about 55 horses 

 at Lincoln during the hunting season, and not a few 

 of them have an early remembrance of Mr. Hall's 

 pasture land, from which, in some instances, they 



