20 Random Recoi^lections of the 



whilst on a visit making him an offer for a 

 three year old filly by '^ Rector," which 

 was indignantly refused at the time, but 

 afterwards accepted. The mare was in due 

 time turned over to me for a hunter, and 

 proved a fine fencer, but met with an accident, 

 from the effects of which she never thoroughly 

 recovered, and was sold, for stud purposes, 

 into the hands of Mr. Tom Dawson, of 

 Middleham, for whom she did good service in 

 producing '^ Red Lion," '^ Lioness," and 

 " Wallace," all race horses of high class. 



