THE BLACKMORE VALE. 99 \; 



the winner of several royal and Queen's premiums. 

 A two-year-old son of Huguenot took the Queen's 

 gold medal at the Royal Show at Windsor, and 

 later realised 180 guineas when sold by auction. 

 Scot Guard joined the stud later, and a yearling 

 of his changed hands at 130 guineas. Amongst 

 other horses standing at Sandley was Yard- Arm, 

 by Privateer ex Conviction, a fine chestnut with 

 enormous bone, and said to be the most power- 

 ful thorouo-hbred horse at the stud in England. 

 Yard -Arm's stock have won prizes to the value 

 of several thousand pounds. In 1892 Captain Fife 

 left Sandley for Yorkshire, and Captain Phipps 

 Hornby succeeded him. 



Major Ness was another steeplechase rider who 

 won the first Blackmore Yale point-to-point, and 

 Sir Walter Grove won the same point-to-point 

 three years in succession with his old chestnut 

 horse Harborough. This horse broke its back in 

 the hunting-field when jumping Bow Brook. 



Mr Merthyr Guest, who succeeded Sir Bichard 

 Glyn as Master of the Blackmore Yale, was 

 always well to the front. In his opinion it is 

 safer to be first at a fence than to come even 

 second, as he believes that a horse is more 

 likely to use his eyes well when he has only 

 himself to rely on than when he is following 

 another. The late Lord Digby was one of the 

 veterans of the field, and with his daughter 

 and two or three of his sons was generally at 

 the meets on the Pulham side of the country, 



