50 LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



Chcipman and Huoh Owen being the only others out of a 

 field of 200 who managed it. I ran him at Oaksey in the Open 

 Race, and he was beaten by a horse of Hugh Owen's called 

 'Cadean,' out of a training stable, I believe, giving him a 

 stone. He also won at Punchestown two years running when 

 belonging to Forrest. Rather a difficult horse to ride, being hot 

 behind other horses, but taking a line of his own in a good run, 

 it was a pleasure to sit on him. Even in the fastest run over 

 walls, when I have known hounds to go a four-mile point in 

 less than eighteen minutes, he never left their sides, about half 

 a field from them, where I consider a man who rides to hounds 

 ought to be." 



Mr. Lockwood subsequently sold "The Friar" to Mr. 

 Edward Ball, but the latter was never quite at home on him, 

 as he found him such a raking great jumper. 



Bulfs Eye. — " I ought to remember this good chestnut 

 horse, seeing that I rode him in the Light-weight Point-to- 

 Point at Good Easter in 1887, and had the bad luck to kill him 

 at Thaxted in the Point-to-Point races the following year. 

 He certainly was a bold, generous horse, and an extraordinary 

 fencer, with a good turn of speed, and when he fell dead with 

 me, and Mr. Lockwood subsequently came up. I did not 

 wonder that he shed tears at the loss of so gallant a hunter, 

 which no money could replace. I felt pretty queer myself, and 

 for a long time was very shy of riding other people's favourites. 

 So when, nine years afterwards, I was riding a horse belong- 

 ing to Col. Lockwood (Mr. Lockwood's brother), in a Point-to- 

 Point race, I was not sorry when it was over, especially as the 

 horse had found a purchaser before I started on him." 



The following notes, dated May 28, '96, are by Mr. W. E. 

 Oakley, late Master of the Atherstone Hounds, and the 

 breeder of " Bull's Eye" : — 



"'Bull's Eye' was by 'Watchman,' by 'Rattle,' out of 

 ' Gonalstone,' ' Ratde ' by ' F^allow Buck' by 'Venison,' dam a 

 bay mare that I bought of Whitfield the book- maker, supposed 

 to be thoroughbred, and winner of steeplechases. She carried 

 all my Hunt servants in turn, and bred me about five clinking 

 good animals. ' Watchman ' Captain Machell bought for 

 me. He was the property of the late George Bryan, and won 

 many races (.see Calendar). This horse I used until his death, 

 and I may safely say never got a bad one, and out of all sorts 

 of mares. In fact, at one time I had over forty horses in 

 condition sired by him, and over 1 50 went through my hands 

 altogether. 



