NEEDLE GUN 



luckily, as the sequel showed, was unable to come. The mare 

 lived to carry Mr. Lee two more seasons, but developino; 

 chronic laminitis, owing- to having been kept so long in slings, 

 she had to be destroyed. Thoucrh a charmino- hack, she had 

 no likmg for harness, and on one occasion tried to jump 

 the park palings at Warlies, with the trap behind her. 



Needle Gun (Property of P. Saunders) 



Mr. James Christy, Mr. H. E. Jones and Mr. E. Tufnell, 

 and a host of others, w^ill tell you that this grand thoroughbred, 

 a brown gelding, by "Gunboat," standing 15.3, was the best 

 and fastest horse that ever went well with stag hounds in 

 Essex : and undoubtedly he was in the palmy days when 

 Mr. Phil Barker, Mr. James Christy and Mr. P. Saunders were 

 a triumvirate, hard to beat or match. In speaking of his 

 performances, his owner, Mr. Saunders, is modest, and makes 

 light of the Dunmow railway gates incident, remarking that 

 they were low ; jumping on to the line over the rail by the side 



