Gentlemen Riders 



His opinion was thought worthy of record in the following 

 lines, which were printed for private circulation at the time. 



"WHITE STOCKINGS. 



"White Stockings, an impetuous horse, 

 A brilliant jumper on the course, 

 Frank Gordon said was the best, 

 That any Englishman possessed, 

 At water-jumping and all round, 

 So good a horse is rarely found. 

 A golden chestnut with white feet ; 

 Of handsome form ; both strong and fleet ; 

 Upstanding withers, head held high. 

 As at his fences he would fly ! 

 With a bold head which served as wedge, 

 To make a gap in bullfinch hedge. 

 Like parting curtains which will last, 

 Only till man and horse have passed: 

 Then close up behind the tail, 

 Leaving no vestige of a trail ! " 



When, three years ago, it became known that Mr. Frank 

 Gordon was about to leave the Peterborough district to take 

 up his residence with his sons, the followers of the Fitzwilliam 

 Hounds, with whom he had hunted for upwards of sixty years, 

 would not let him depart without some souvenir of the happy 

 days they had enjoyed in his company, and which, taking the 

 very appropriate form of a massive silver " Loving Cup," was 

 duly presented to, " The Grand Old Man of the Hunt," as the 

 recipient was affectionately termed, in the May of 1904. 



Mr. Frank Gordon died on the ist of March, 1907, 

 at the advanced age of eighty-two, as the result of a cold 

 caught whilst hunting a fortnight previously ; his wife having 

 predeceased him by nearly thirty years. Two months 

 later he was followed by his elder brother, Mr. George 

 Gordon, born in 1822, and also a noted rider with the Belvoir 

 Hounds. 



Taking a lively interest in all that appertains to that noble 



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