200 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1825 to 



The ball at the King's Head, Wickham, was 

 attended by most of the company before men- 

 tioned. The supper was elegantly served by 

 Sandles. The attentions of the stewards, Sir 

 Francis Collier and Captain George Delme, 

 were unremitting. 



Mr. Robert Mr. Jessett was a very hard man 

 Jessett. with hounds, and a capital flat and 



steeple-chase rider. In 1831 he won the 

 St. Albans Steeple-chase, riding Moonraker, 

 then belonging to Mr. Caldicott, but after- 

 wards the property of Mr. Anderson, who also 

 won several races with him. Mr. Jessett had 

 a very good horse, Montagu, with which he 

 won several Kings plates. 

 mi J 833 -, A writer in the Sporting Maqazine 



The H amble- -* J ° 



don Hunt, (May, p. 43), signing himself Miles, 

 Mr. King. writing to his friend Oneofus, says: 

 " I saw your old acquaintance, Mr. King, who 

 now hunts the Hambledon country, and, with 

 Jack Squires for first whip, has shown most 

 splendid sport. Up to January 18th he had 

 a succession of runs (killing seventeen foxes in 

 sixteen days), and many of them most capital 

 things. I need not say he is a universal 

 favourite both in and out of the field. His 

 health is not good, and he suffers at times 

 from the effects of a severe fall last season, 



