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occasions ; and, even in those clays, when three hundred guineas 

 were considered as an ultra price for a hunter, he did not hesi- 

 tate to possess himself of South,* a little horse, barely exceeding 

 fifteen hands in height. There are different opinions as to his 

 proficiency as an elegant horseman ; but it is never disputed, 

 that his progress over a country was, like the whole course of his 

 life, straightforward. 



Some of his best horses, in 1792, were known by the follow- 

 ing names : — 



Miller 



Tom-Tit 



Harry Punt — died after a hard day at Widnerpool, March 

 21st, 1795. 



Leveller Joe 



Chestnut mare 



Mr. Fitzherbert's horse. 



He had also a particularly clever hack mare, which he rode 

 to covert, and which was ridden also by the late Marchioness of 

 Salisbury. — This mare was the occasion of the invention of the 

 spring-bar. The groom boy, who rode her upon one occasion, 

 having placed his feet in the stirrup-leathers, and been kicked 

 off*, was dragged by the leg, and killed, Debrew, Mr. Meynell's 

 valet and maitre cT hotel (probably, as his name would indicate. 



* Mr. Meynell sold this famous horse, South, for 500 guineas, to Sir Harry 

 Fetherstonhaugh, who subsequently exchanged him with Lord Maynard for 

 the celebrated race-horse. Surprise — another instance of the value of some 

 hunters of those days. Surprise, a grey horse, by Gimcrack out of Snapdragon, 

 when the property of Lord Grosvenor, won the largest stakes ever run for at 

 Newmarket, or anywhere else — viz. five thousand six hundred guineas. He 

 was named Surprise, having been started with no other view than that of 

 making play for the favourite, another horse of Lord Grosvenor 's, ridden by 

 Pratt, who, on discovering the distance which the boy riding the grey had 

 been allowed to gain, exclaimed, laughingly, to those waiting upon hijn — "Now, 

 catch that grey horse, — Who can ?" 



