194 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1842 



lie pulled round in order to go the right side of the flag. 

 The owner of Croxby (by Velocipede) had to refund, and 

 this little affair cost the club £140. 



No county turned out two better chasers than Peter 

 Simple and Gay Lad, though some declared they were 

 not the equal of Lottery. They only met him towards 

 the end of his career, when he was certainly not at his 

 best. 



Peter Simple was a very good-looking horse and a 

 beautiful mover, but he had not a very good mouth, and 

 he went a tremendous pace at his fences. He was a 

 wonder through the dirt, and it never seemed to stop 

 him, no matter how deep or holding. John Elmore once 

 bid seven hundred guineas for him. 



Gay Lad was not a taking horse to look at, having an 

 ugly head and being light through his brisket. He was 

 a fast galloper, and particularly good at fences and water, 

 but timber was not his strong point. 



Mr. Loft won on Creeper in 1842, with Mr. C. Nainby 

 second, and Mr. Baxter third, in which race Paul Pry, a 

 cream-coloured horse, came to an untimely end. The course 

 lay from Keelby Sprothorns over Aylesby and Laceby, 

 the road being crossed at Irby Scrubb Close, and the 

 winning-post was in Mr. Philip Skipworth's large grass- 

 field. Then Mr. Charles Nainby won three years in 

 succession on his father's horses, Crocus, and the two greys, 

 Newcastle Tommy and Northallerton Tommy. Crocus's 

 race was the last one attended by the second Earl of 

 Yarborough. 



Both Newcastle Tommy and Northallerton Tommy 

 were sold for £200 each, and the latter would have gone 

 for £30 a few months before the race, but a storm 

 prevented him from crossing the Humber to Beverley 

 Fair. 



Captain Skipworth won on the hard-pulling Dubious 

 in 1846, and Mr. Lamplough came out of Holderness the 

 next year, to take the stakes out of the district for the 

 first time, with Salvation ; Mr. Oldacre won the last two 



