28 THE QUORN HUNT, 



vast length of the building is to the eye 

 diminished, but It still presents a most im- 

 posing effect of originality, the low stalls 

 and the antique racks being still preserved. 

 An Inspection of these and the adjoining 

 stables, containing altogether upwards of 

 seventy hunters, was sufficient to dispel the 

 dolorous expressions so constantly ad- 

 vanced, that England has lost the breed 

 of valuable horses adapted to the pur- 

 pose of the chase. That they are not 

 abundant, or produced by every incon- 

 siderate breeder, who, only evoking the 

 chances of fate, obtains few favours, can- 

 not be gainsaid ; nevertheless, we still pos- 

 sess the good material If it be judiciously 

 appropriated. 



To enter into a descriptive detail of all 

 the horses in such an extensive stud as 

 Lord Stamford's was, enumerating every 

 point of excellence that each of them pos- 

 sessed, would have been a labour of inordi- 

 nate length, and would have trespassed on 

 the imperative restrictions of stable hours. 

 I content myself, therefore, with noticing 



