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chances he deserved. . . . He was a grand horse to look over : a bay ; with 

 power enough to carry any reasonable weight to hounds, and with the best of 

 tempers : his limbs must have been of cast iron to carry him through the host of 

 encounters (he won fifty races) in which lie took part, and he was never known 

 to fall. As a sire, it may safely be said that he never begot a bad one, and no 

 horse had a worse chance : but whether the mare was small or big, light or coarse, 

 it made little difference — the ' young New Oswestrys ' were either good hunters or 

 steeijlechasers. Of the latter class I have only to point to 'St. Galmier ' ■•'• and 

 ' Savoyard ' -■' as specimens, while of hunters their name is legion. One remark- 

 able instance I call to mind is a splendid hunter ridden by a lady in Shropshire, 

 the dam of which was merely a cob, and the brother of this horse was sold for 

 £600 to carry a king or prince abroad." 



* See pages 4 and 132 



