266 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND AINSTY HUNT. 



bore out his reputation when he cast in his lot with the 

 York and Ainsty. The late Mr. Thomas Walker once 

 pointed out to me a place where he pounded the field. It 

 was a very wide drain not far from the road between 

 Deighton lane end and Wheldrake. Jackson was a bold 

 rather than a fine horseman, though he was probably above 

 the average all round. He had some good race horses, the 

 best being probably Tim Whiffler, who won the Chester 

 Cup, the Goodwood Cup and the Doncaster Cup when he 

 was a three-year-old, and ran a dead heat with Buckstone in 

 the Ascot Cup the following year, no very mean performance 

 even if he was beaten in the deciding heat. 



Amono-st the most regular followers of the York and 

 Ainsty hounds was Mr. H. S. Thompson, of Fairfield, a good 

 all-round sportsman, whose name is closely associated with 

 horse-breedincr in Yorkshire. At one time he had a great deal 

 to do with the Rawcliffe stud, which was formed under such 

 favourable auspices but which did not prove a very profitable 

 investment to its shareholders. Mr. Thompson was a fine 

 judge of the thoroughbred horse and also of racing, and no 

 harder man ever got on to a horse. He had a liberal idea 

 of the jumping powers of the horse, and no place seemed 

 too big for him. Mr. G. S. Thompson, his son, whose fame 

 as a gentleman rider it is not necessary to say was the pride 

 of his county as long as he wore silk, relates that he was 

 once out on a pony, a rather hard puller for a small boy, and 

 that immediately hounds found, his father set off at score 

 and put his horse at a gate. The pony would follow his 

 stable companion and got a little out of hand, but fortunately 

 the horse hit the gate as he rose at it, and it flew open and 

 thus simplified matters. 



Mr. Lumley Hodgson was also a keen sportsman and a 

 good man to hounds. He was a very fine judge of a horse, 

 and bred many good ones in his time, his yearlings often 

 bringing big prices. 



