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for nine brace more to ground. From one end of 

 tlie country to tlie other ",vas fully eighty miles^ and 

 it is a precious memory with Tom that one ■\veek 

 they ^' hunted it down^^ and killed four brace. The 

 hounds were generally of Beaufort and Lonsda^le 

 blood- Bracer by Bedford^ by Beaufort Brusher 

 from a Isiichol bitch, was quite one of the best ; and 

 Chalon, who once lived nearly a year at Barnton, 

 made him one of his chief hound studies. Lonsdale 

 blood was Mr. Ramsay's delight,, and he bought \7h 

 couple of them at the Cottesmore sale. He had six- 

 teen horses for his men, and as many for himself, and 

 yet some seasons he was not out five times. 



His heart was in the Defiance and the Tallyho ; 

 but when he did get a lead over a strong country, he 

 was very bad to beat. '^ Sim" Templeman Avould be 

 down occasionally after the Caledonian meeting, and 

 rode some of his hunters for him ; and so did Harry 

 Edwards in '37, a few months after he had won two 

 Liverpool Cups in one week on Inheritor in his very 

 finest style. Will Noble would also help to whip in, 

 and William FAnson bore a hand when he had 

 brought the race-horses from Gullane to Barnton for 

 the winter. Tom Cleghorn's old horse Davie was a 

 permanent resident at Barnton. The grooms might 

 well say that he had seen a vast of sport, as he began 

 when he was about three, and died at 35, quite white 

 on his head, but still "able to enjoy himself with 

 hounds.'' Tom rode in shoes and black stockings 

 and a mealy-brown suit, and whatever his hat might 



