1892 1893. KEGISTERED HUNTER STALLIONS. 13 



NEW OSWESTRY— 13. 



Bay. Foaled 1864. 

 Bred by E. Foulkes, Oswestry, Salop. 



SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL RACES:— 



■ September 18th, Hunters' Stakes of £48 at Oswestry. 



September 21st, Albrighton Hunt Steeplechase of £40, St. George's, Salop. 

 1868 •] October 16th, Herefordshire United Hunters' Stakes of £52 at Hereford. 



October 29th, Hunters' Plate of £40 at Worcester. 

 VNovemberl8th,Tally Ho Stakes of £80, Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt. 



/j\Iarch 5th, Steeplechase Stakes of £100 at Bangor. 

 March 31st, Steeplechase Plate of £52, Cheshire Hunt, 

 May 13th, Froome Hunt Purse of £30 at Bromyard. 

 October 7th, Brownlow Cup of £21, Ellesmere Hunt. 

 1869< October 22nd, United Hunters' Stakes of £40 at Hereford. 

 October 29th, Hunt Cup, value £41, at Ludlow. 

 November 5th, County Stakes of £20 at Presteign. 



November 24th, Tally Ho Stakes of £92, Leamington and Warwickshire 

 \ Hunt. 



1870 May 19th, Froome Hunt Purse of £30 at Bromyard. 



f March 28th, Bridgnorth Tradesmen's Purse of £50, Bridgnorth Hunt. 

 ° ' \ April 18th, Whittingham Stakes of £143 at Lichfield. 



"New Oswestry" was ridden in most of his Races by " Mr. Charles" otherwise 

 Colonel Rivers Bulkeley, one of the Council of the Hunters' Improvement Society. 



In the Live Stock Joicrnal of July 14th, 1893, Sir R. D. Green Price, Bart,, 

 thus writes of this famous Hunter sire ; — 



"It is, however, to a grandson of 'Pocahontas' that I am looking, when 

 daring to advocate sires which have not found their way into the Stud Book. I 

 allude to ' New Oswestry,' or rather to his descendants, for he, alas ! is dead. 

 He was a son of ' Knight of Kars,' out of ' Debonnaire,' by ' Newminster,' out of 

 ' Mrs. Taft.' . . . The stain of blood, as is generally known, comes from 

 ' Mrs. Taft,' which, nevertheless, was good enough to win the Cesarewitch. I 

 make no apology for placing ' New Oswestry ' as the best type of Hunter sire 

 within our recollection, for not only was he a remarkable horse himself— so good, 

 indeed, that, to quote the words recently written by a man who knew him well, 

 and rode him in most of his races, ' there is no doubt but that he was the best horse 

 of his time, {ind there is little doubt but that he could have won the Liverpool 

 Grand National, Queen's Plates and Cesarewitch the same year.' As it was, he 

 belonged to one of the most eccentric of men, by trade a butcher, who preferred to 

 run him about at all the little meetings for small stakes, rather than give him the 



