48 LIGHT HORSES I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



and Mr. Philip Triffit's Fireaway H.H.S.S.B. 249, as illus- 

 trations to go by. These two grand old horses, whose memo- 

 ries will for ever remain green in the minds of those who love 

 a Hackney, were both big prize winners twenty years ago and 

 more, but their victories in the show ring are as nothing com- 

 pared with the services they subsequently rendered at the stud 

 to the breed which they adorned whilst alive. The value of a 

 Denmark mare is notorious amongst Hackney men, and the 

 old horse also sired the winners of two of the Hackney 

 Society's Championships Candidate and Connaught the 

 former of which got the champion M.P., a dual winner of this 

 honour. 



Nor are the big winners of modern times one whit behind 

 these two old champions in stamping their quality upon their 

 get, as witness the vast number of prizes that find their way 

 to the sons and daughters of Mr. W. Flanders' Reality, the 

 absolute winner of the first Elsenham Challenge Cup, Mr. 

 Burdett-Coutts' Candidate, the second winner of that event, 

 and last, but by no means least, of Mr. Henry Moore's 

 defunct chestnut, Rufus, who, like Reality, succeeded in 

 winning the second Elsenham Challenge Cup for his owner. 

 The sudden death of this great horse may be regarded by 

 breeders as being little less than a calamity, as amongst his 

 stock that have appeared there is scarcely one that has 

 failed to be a credit to his illustrious sire one of the best 

 Hackneys of modern days. All the get of Rufus are long and 

 low, with plenty of substance, and a heap of Hackney 

 character and quality about them. Thanks, therefore, to 

 Mr. Moore's great chestnut, admirers of, and believers in, the 

 old fashioned Hackney should soon be able to recruit their 

 studs by a dash of Rufus blood, the value of which should be 

 inestimable, as he left a good crop of foals behind him, when 

 he was cut off in his prime a short time ago. Rufus, 

 although his show career began and ended whilst he was an 

 inmate of a Yorkshire stable, was by birth a Norfolk horse, 

 having been bred by Messrs. Peacock and Sons, of Brandon, 



