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then seemed, he won the Goodwood Nursery on a 

 Friday, and on the Monday he was giving a stone 

 and finishing level with Catalonia for the Nursery at 

 Ripon. Six winners out of four mares in three 

 seasons is no small allowance. 



Pedigreed shorthorn cows with rich-haired Duke of 

 Towneley calves are also to be found in the spots 

 once specially dedicated to blood stock, and two 

 drape cows were laying on Christmas beef in the well 

 walled acres of " Daniel's own." Coates's Herd Book 

 is at last having its claim allowed by the side of 

 Wetherby's Calendar^ and the red Duke of Towneley, 

 with a man on each side of that handsome but 

 treacherous fore-hand, is ushered into the yard, and 

 walks snorting down the high road. 



The mares are always taken up when the hounds 

 come. In old Sir Tatton's time Lord Middleton 

 never drew the Sledmere covers (which are full of 

 foxes, and require an enormous amount of routing), 

 but whipped off, as the troops of mares would have 

 taken to galloping half the day, and have probably 

 cast their foals. The litters were, of course, carefully 

 looked after, and carried off to another part of the 

 country. However, when the railroad was made, the 

 whips could very seldom stop them, and they ran to 

 Sledmere oftener during the first three years after the 

 line was opened than they had done in the previous 

 twr nty. Pry Whin is a beautiful cover for cubs, with 

 that grand pear-shaped bit of whin, gorse and briars 

 in its centre, from which we have seen a brace of old 

 foxes leisurely cross the riding on a summer afternoon. 

 Beyond it, at the end of this line of woodland, is the 

 Gothic tower, which has been erected to Sir Tatton's 

 memory on Garton Hill. A laboured inscription 

 would have only mocked a memory so rich in grand 

 simplicity. Few words were needed, and none are 

 there save " The memory of the just is blessed." A 

 hot haze denied us a distant view as we scaled the 



