Celebrities of the Past Thirty Years 1 5 i 



by tlie Countess of Warwick. Being at 

 Easton, Lady Warwick's place near Dun- 

 mow, I took the opportunity of going tlirough 

 the stables and looking at the hunters. 

 Whilst discussing their merits later on, the 

 Countess told me that All's Well was one of 

 the most perfect of hunters, and extraordi- 

 narily fast. To use Lady Warwick's own 

 words, " he doesn't know how to fall." 

 Certes, he ought not, with such a precious 

 burden to bear as the most beautiful woman 

 in Christendom. 



In 1 88 1 the little black horse Ees;al was 

 second, beaten pretty easily by Woodbrook, 

 a " noisy " one ; and the next year Lord 

 Manners got Seaman home by a short head, 

 after a desperate race with Tom Beasley on 

 Cyrus. I always think Seaman, fit and well, 

 was one of the horses of the century. The 

 year before he won the Grand National he 

 simply "made hay " of a good field of horses 

 in the Liverpool Hunt Steeplechase, and won 

 by the length of a street, after making the 

 whole of the running. Afterwards he went 



