86 GOOD SPORT 



Admiral Rous, that he presented a picture of him to 

 the Jockey Chib, is the only English racehorse after 

 whom a still existing association is named — the 

 Gimcrack Club at York, founded in 1766, attests 

 his excellence and prowess. Somehow there is a 

 prejudice against greys that they lack speed, but 

 amongst the well-known grey performers in the 

 annals of steeplechasing can be mentioned Grey 

 Skin, Peter Simple, the Greyling, Cigar, Grimaldi, 

 Prince le Boo, Comus, Hesperus, Scots Grey, Bob 

 Ridley, and Downpatrick. 



To show off a scarlet coat there is no colour so 

 telling as grey, and what a good colour it is to find 

 in the landscape ! Where is the master of hounds 

 who has not a good grey horse or two in his stud ? 

 The best of colours to lead the procession, and as a 

 rule the favourite mount when there is any work 

 that wants doing ! Some good judges stick to a 

 colour, just as they do to a stamp, when choosing 

 their horses. " Hunters of a colour are not difficult 

 to find," says Sir Reginald Graham, in his interesting 

 book of hunting reminiscences ; " but the difficulty is 

 to find the money to buy them with." When Mr. 

 Merthyr Guest was master of the Blackmore Vale, 

 hunting them at his own cost from 1884 to 1900, 

 he mounted the whole of his staff on grey horses, 

 giving a very striking appearance to a hunt which 

 has a large percentage of woodland. Mr. C. B. E. 

 Wright was another who favoured the colour, 

 and when master of the Badsworth, from 1876 to 

 1892, had a stable of greys and chestnuts, making a 

 very pleasing contrast. 



The Earl of Lonsdale's colour is chestnut, and 

 we have seen more than sixty stabled at Barley- 

 thorpe to carry the Cottesmore hunt staff, the 

 majority being able to claim a birthright in the Stud 



