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Ruiulclls. on A])ril lOth, 1890. Distance 3 miles, weight 13 st. 

 4 11). Prcxious to this race he had not been out of the stable 

 tor ten clays, owing to a leg, which always gave Mr. Tweed a 

 lot of trouble in ^training the horse ; otherwise he would have 

 won more steeplechases. 



"St. Devereux," by " Mornington " out of " Schehallion " 

 1)\ " Blair Athol," was a good hunter and fencer. Rather high 

 on the leg and narrow to follow, but with a lion's heart in him, 

 he was what the dealers call a light-'earted oss, always had a 

 kick in him, and would land one very warm at the meet. Mr. 

 Tweed relates that once, after riding him in a tremendous 

 gallop with the Essex Union, after one of Mr. William 

 Gardiner's good foxes, from Noak Wood up to Thundersley, 

 eight miles as the crow flies, and getting one fall, he let fly 

 at a cart going through Rayleigh on the way home. 



"St. Devereux" won the Roothing Steeplechase at Galley- 

 wood, in 1890. 



" True Love," a brown mare by " Philammon " out of 

 " \'era," was very good looking and had perfect manners with 

 hounds. She had had a hard two-year-old season in Ireland, 

 running second several times to good horses, and her heart 

 was broken by whip and spur ; Mr. Tweed ran her several 

 times in 1891, and never touched her with either; but early 

 punishment had ruined her, and if she landed over the last 

 fence in a race with a strong advantage, she would begin to 

 shut off steam when she heard the shouting. So perhaps Mr. 

 Tweed did well when he sold her to go to the stud in Germany. 



" Bryn," a very clever chestnut gelding by "Sweetbread" 

 out of " Chaff," was hunted as a three, four and five year old by 

 Mr. Tweed : he and his brother were joint owners of the horse, 

 and sold him as a six-year-old to Mr. C. \'. Tabor, who won 

 the United Hunt Cup at Rundells with him in 1896 ; and also 

 beat a big held at Woodbridge, Suffolk, for the Woodbridge 

 Plate. 



If Mr. Tweed has had his share of good ones, he has not 

 escaped a clumsy one or two ; perhaps " Verbena," which gave 

 him eight falls between Screens and the High \\'oods, during 

 one run in 1889, was about the worst. 



" 7 he best conveyance to hounds I L-jer rodc^ So wrote Mr. 

 A. J. Tweed, when he sent me the photo of this well-known 

 animal, a bay gelding by " Pride of England," dam by the 

 " Hadji." Standing 16 hands, but on very short legs, he did 

 not appear nearly so high ; he was very successful in the show 

 ring, carrying oft first prize in the 14 st. class for hunters, first 



