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weeks, but made handsome amends for these shortcomings by 

 her subsequent behaviour, for Mr. Loyd only recalls one fall 

 durino- the twelve to thirteen seasons he has ridden her since, 

 and that through a rabbit-hole on a bank. The worst one to 

 break he ever owned, Mr. Loyd was well repaid for all the 

 trouble he took with this young 'un, and exercised very good 

 judgment when he bought her in the ring. 



Frederick Loyd on " Rosamond " 



"Bullfinch," a bay with black points, standing i6 hands, 

 came from Simmer, of Market Harborough, and carried Mr. 

 Charrington well in his undergraduate days with the Fitz- 

 william and Cambridgeshire, and with the Essex Hounds in 

 the early nineties. When I look at this portrait I am sadly 

 reminded once again of the uncertainty of life. Only on the 



