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being slow even on good ground, he made up by his 

 power of going on in his stride after a fence, and 

 although he seemed to gallop over them, he rarely, if 

 ever, made a mistake. The Greyling, Cigar, and 

 Grimaldi were also the incarnation of " gallant greys," 

 and the latter was a fifteen-three horse on short legs, 

 and at least half a hand less than his leggy steeple- 

 chase rival, Moonraker, of whom, with " The Squire" 

 up, he cleverly disposed, in their great looo-guinea 

 match. Moonraker was originally bought for 20 sovs. 

 at Birmingham Fair, and won the steeple-chase at St. 

 Albans, whose tutelary saint he quite ousted for the 

 time being. He never reached a higher figure than 

 200 guineas, as his speed was far inferior to his great 

 raking style at a fence, and he was fired and very 

 tender on both his front legs. Cigar was also fully 

 sixteen hands high, and won, in Mr. Anderson's hands, 

 the only loo-guinea sweepstakes ever run across 

 country. Fourteen stone was about his mark, but 

 Lord Southampton (who bought two three-hundred 

 greys from Sir Harry Goodricke) gave Mr. Anderson 

 300 guineas for him after he retired from the steeple- 

 chase world, and rode seventeen stone on him for three 

 seasons. He then came into his old owner's hands 

 again, but he never mounted him, and had him mer- 

 cifully shot soon after, rather than let him down in 

 the world, after such faithful service. 



The greatest riding period with the Quorn is gene- 

 rally allowed to be that of Lords Jersey, Germaine, 

 and Forester, and Messrs. Cholmondeley (afterwards 

 Lord Delamere), Assheton Smith, Lindow, &c. Of 

 Mr. Lindow and his twin-brother, Mr. Rawlinson, 

 who was as famous over Leicestershire on Spread 

 Eagle as he was on the turf with Coronation, it used 

 to be said that the latter's riding was better for his 

 horse, but that the former sold his horses better. 

 One well-known character used to come out of the 

 fen district at intervals, with his nags in the primest 



