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the horse was known as a great performer. Fox- 

 catcher figures in a design for the Royal Show at 

 Gloucester, June 1909. Another good-looking grey 

 of a strong type, which carried the master for some 

 nine seasons up to 1908, was Phantom, a well-known 

 performer on the Lincolnshire side of the country. 

 A beautifully topped horse, he was very much back 

 at the knees, but they proved good wearing legs, 

 clean and fine as the day he was foaled right up to 

 the last, when he broke down at twenty years of 

 age through striking into an ant-heap by Osgodby 

 Coppice. This horse had a singular career, being 

 bought as a three-year-old out of the station omnibus 

 at Peterborough for forty pounds, and was intended 

 for harness on Sir Gilbert's Cheshire estate. Coming 

 to Belvoir as a second whipper-in's horse, he learnt 

 his business ridden by Will Haynes, now huntsman 

 to Lord Waterford's hounds. A lucky horse, with a 

 wonderful constitution, he was never lame, sick, or 

 sorry, a safe jumper, ridden by everybody or any- 

 body, and kept out the longest hours as second horse. 

 One day Sir Gilbert chose him, finding he was 

 a good ride with the best of manners, gave him 

 promotion, and very well the old horse always 

 looked at the head of the procession. 



Another grey that is perhaps just as well known, 

 carrying Sir Gilbert Greenall, is the pony Bubbles, 

 an absolutely perfect model of a weight-carrying cob, 

 14 hands 2 inches, sensible as a Christian, full of 

 courage, able to gallop and twist like a polo pony. 

 A favourite hack, he is always ridden by his owner 

 at the Royal Agricultural Shows, when as Honorary 

 Director he leads the Royal party round the Show 

 grounds. 



Mr. E. W. Griffith, field master to the Belvoir, is 

 another who will be remembered riding a grey, a big 



