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collectively made 17,060 guineas. The highest 

 prices were 760 guineas, 660 guineas, and 630 guineas. 

 The dispersal sale by Lord Lonsdale of the Cottes- 

 more hunt horses, during Coronation week, 1911, 

 was an equally memorable occasion. About eighty 

 horses fetched an aggregate of 8873, as much as 

 790 guineas, 740 guineas and 590 guineas being re- 

 fused for the pick of the stud. 



A life-size picture by Basil Nightingale hangs on 



In lighter vein. 



the staircase at Barleythorpe Hall, a portrait of 

 Lord Lonsdale riding a favourite, hollow-backed 

 chestnut horse, named Radient ; jumping a double 

 Leicestershire oxer, a feat he accomplished during 

 the Quorn mastership. A small equestrian statuette 

 of Lord Lonsdale in silver represents a famous 

 grey horse named Marble, w^ho jumped a five-foot 

 stone wall at Kirby Gate, carrying seventeen 

 stone. A statuette of Mullagh, a bay hunter by 

 Cardinal out of a mare by York, sculptured by 

 Captain Adrain Jones, and presented by the farmers 



