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be a keen and thorough sportsman, always wilhng and ready to vide any 

 of their young horses at the local chases. In fact, it is only a week or two back 

 since he steered the winner home for one of them m the welter class of the 

 point-to-point races, and farmers also know that when his hounds cross 

 their land they do little damage, for they come and go like the flash of 

 an express train, leaving little trace behind; for horses have to jump clean 

 and big to live with them across the Roothings when the country is deep 

 and scent is holding. 



Jib 



Stratford 



In the portrait of "The Essex Stag Hounds," page 276, 

 Mr. Sheffield Neave is depicted on " Tallyho," and Alfred 

 on "Satanella, " two of Mr. Neave's five good horses, 

 " Tallyho," a bay 16.2, nearly, if not quite, thoroughbred, 

 was bought at Tattersalls' from Mr. Stirling vStuart. That 

 gentleman had purchased him to win the Ladies' Plate at 

 Rugby, but bolting through a fence he broke Mr. Stuart's 

 thigh. He tried the same game on with Mr. Neave, but the 

 ditches gave him such an ugly jar that notwithstanding the 

 evil prophecies of those who knew him (but evidently didn't 

 know Mr. Neave), he took to jumping properly. 



