390 FIELD AND FERN. 



cut up SO badly that she v/as put into a straw yard, 

 and the farmer's sons rode her to school. After that, 

 she won two fifties in Lord Elcho^s name, and Sir 

 James Bos well offered .€250 for her, but Mr. Sharpe 

 did not care to part v/ith her, and said "A thousand 

 or nothing.^^ To use his own expression, '^Iwas 

 crazy on Mulatto /^ but it proved very methodical 

 madness, as her produce Martlia Lynn became the 

 dam of A^oltigeur. All the old mare's stock found a 

 purchaser in Mr. Ramsay, the colts at £100 and the 

 fillies at £80, and soon after Martha had been 

 swapped away to Mr. Stephenson, Leda herself died 

 while foaling a colt to The Doctor. Hazard by Black- 

 lock was another of Mr. Sharpens Doncaster pur- 

 chases, and so was Dan by Catton. To win the 

 Maiden Plates at Edinburgh was his great aim, and 

 when he was confederate with Lord Wemyss (then 

 Lord Elcho) in Philip, Brunswick, and Gondolier, 

 his sphere was considerably extended. Beagle by 

 Whalebone was his first stallion ; and Brunswick, 

 whom he bought more out of charity than fancy at 

 Perth, because the party had lost every half-pennj^, 

 and did not know how to get home, was his second. 

 Sister to Jerry was also in his hands when her black 

 brother won the St. Leger, and she died visiting 

 Brunswick.^ 



Of later years, hunters have been a great point 

 with him. Knockhill, the present crack of Lord 

 "Wemyss's stable, was by Turnus out of a roan mare, 



* See " Scott and Sebright," pp. 152 and 234. 



