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seen a Sultan in the hunting-field, and they certainly 

 had not much girth to inherit from him, however 

 pretty their forehands might be. 



Whitenose, who is said to have carried Sir Richard 

 over the greatest jump he ever rode at, somewhere in 

 the neighbourhood of Barkby Holt, would have given 

 us quite the idea of being a Touchstone horse and by 

 no means a hunter-model ; his thighs seemed almost 

 as straight as Partisan's were, and his withers perhaps 

 the highest we have ever seen. Sir Richard had three 

 falls the first day he rode him, but he never gave him 

 another during che twelve seasons they enjoyed to- 

 gether. His black half-brother, The Emperor, was 

 also a wonderful horse, but for power Sir Richard had 

 few to beat Flambeau, and his thorough-bred seven- 

 teen-hand Hotspur was extraordinary enough to make 

 converts of those who are not fond, as the late baronet 

 was, of size. The style, too, in which Ben Morgan 

 steered the grey Patch, as well as the veteran Lop, 

 and Doctor Smollett, while " Tearaway Jack" tore 

 along on Ptarmigan and Durham are " great facts" in 

 the history of Quorn. Speaking within limits, between 

 1847 an d his death, Sir Richard had no less than 

 twenty-five or thirty horses of a class that could make 

 themselves remembered over the pasture lands of 

 Leicestershire. The Muley blood is well represented 

 by Drayton, whose stock is getting very valuable, and 

 Little Known ; one of the latter's colts at Beverley 

 Fair, about 1852, struck us as a dainty model 

 of a heavy-weight hunter : but, after all said and 

 done, dealers will tell you with truth that there 

 are not more than six or seven hunters, so to speak, 

 foaled in England each year. The Freneys, King 

 David to wit, are very good, and have always a clean 

 wiry look about them, without that temper which 

 their sire used to show by perpetually snapping round 

 at his jockey's legs. The judges at Malton, too, who 

 gave the prize in 1855 for the best hunting sire to 



