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greeting ; and one morning in 1851 or 1852, he 

 lay down and died in sight of it. He was origi- 

 nally bought from a tenant, and was a much plea- 

 santer horse to ride than the warm and fidgetty 

 Martingale by The Saddler, on whom Tom appears 

 in his son's well-known picture of the Milton pack. 

 The chestnut Reformer was another very good son of 

 Amadis, and among the Earl's other favourites may 

 be reckoned Little John, by St. Paul, who unfortu- 

 nately broke his leg ; Don Quixote ; Zara, the gran- 

 dam of Don Quixote ; Asplendion, by Cervantes ; 

 Tanner, by Cervantes, and bred by Mr. Russell, a 

 Yorkshire tenant (who also bred and sold Patriot to 

 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 foal's 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 un- 

 fortunately 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 splen- 

 did middle-piece, also left for Ireland, 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 wonderfully 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 



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