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ing 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 Widmerpool, 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 cVhotel (probably, as his name would indicate, 

 butler also) , a very ingenious and clever man, set his wits to 

 work to prevent the recurrence of a like catastrophe. The 

 present spring-bar was the fruit of his invention. To him also 

 was to be imputed the merit of a spring in a wooden leg, worn 

 by Tom Jones, the second whipper-in. This Tom Jones, if of 

 less notoriety than his namesake, the hero of Fielding, was 

 probably more distinguished and distinguishable in the field. 

 He was a capital horseman, and very active in the saddle. 

 The wooden leg, so far from being of any inconvenience to him, 

 appeared rather useful than otherwise, in creeping by trees, 



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 gray had been allowed to gain, ex- 

 claimed, laughingly, to those waiting upon him — " Now, catch that gray 

 horse,— Who canl" 



