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five hundred for something very good. I 

 rode one one day in Northamptonshire, 

 which made over five hundred at the hammer 

 a fortnight later, and he was an aged horse, 

 too ; and another, which Lord Clarendon had 

 paid six hundred for, some time before ; and 

 although I think the man to whom money is 

 but a small object does wisely to give these 

 big prices for horses that really suit him — 

 why shouldn't he ? — yet there is no doubt that 

 one can be carried right well, if a light- 

 weight, by horses that make very little more 

 than the odd shillings on those costly pur- 

 chases just named. A friend of mine a short 

 time since bought for forty sovereigns a rare 

 made horse, up^to weight, and a grand per- 

 former ; he afterwards won a good steeple- 

 chase with him. I picked up a very useful 

 hunter at Aldridge's not long ago for twenty- 

 seven pounds, which carried me two seasons 

 without a fall, and was wonderfully fast ; 

 another that I bought, a perfectly sound five- 

 year-old, without a character of any sort, for 

 twenty pounds, made me a capital light- 



