Mr. John Jackson. 2 i I 



Terrific, Lady Louisa, Nutbush, Hecate, Woodbine, 

 and Violet, averaged 696 guineas. After a good con- 

 test between Mr. Blenkiron and Count Renard, Blair 

 Athol, of whom we believe that Mr. I'Anson had still 

 a leg, went to Eltham at 5000 guineas ; and six of his 

 foals, many of them quite little gems, averaged 246 

 guineas. The highest price was 310 guineas for a filly 

 from Effie, and the same was made for a Thormanby 

 filly from Woodbine. It is rather remarkable that 

 while the foals were making these prices, the three 

 two-year-olds by Blair Athol only averaged 237 

 guineas. The sum-total of the 119 lots at the two 

 sales was about 28,5<DO/. It was, we believe, some 

 5ooo/. more than Mr. Jackson had laid them at, 

 and his mind seemed much easier when they were 

 gone. The bodily improvement was, however, quite 

 fallacious, and he began to droop again, and finally 

 passed away within a few days of his forty-first 

 birthday. With all his curious ways, we could ill 

 spare him, and through many a rolling year " poor 

 Jock of Fairfield" will be remembered at Yorkshire 

 firesides for his daring pluck and open-handed kind- 

 ness. 



From the pleasant parts about Northallerton, we 

 make our way into the East Riding by the line from 

 Thirsk to Malton. Mr. Samuel Wiley,* who has sur- 



* Mr. Samuel Wiley, who was born on January 2oth, 1777, came to 

 Brandsby as a boy of ten, and in 1803 he was a tup-letter. He might 

 be said to have begun on his own account by giving Mr. Mason of 

 Chilton 50 guineas for the use of Butter Lump for the season, and then 

 for fourteen years in succession he hired tups from Robert Colling. 

 Shoulders, Carcase, Brother to Carcase, Ditto, a son of Symmetry, and 

 Blossom (sire of the ram Ajax, for whom Sir Tatton bid up to 

 156 guineas, against Mr. George Baker of Elemore) were the upshot of 

 his hiring journeys ; but Mr. Wiley valued none of them more than a 

 6o-guinea two-shear, for which he drew cuts with Major Rudd. When 

 the Barmpton flock was dispersed, he used his own tups for three or 

 four seasons. He was then faithful for twenty or more to the Burgess 

 blood at Cotgrave Place and Holmpierrepont. Then a three-shear, 

 which he bought at Mr. John Stone's sale, did him immense good for 



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