2 88 The Course, the Camp, the Chase 



thorpe Coverts to the left, he went straight up to the 

 high road opposite to Kirk Deighton, and then turned 

 towards Wetherby, and was killed. 



Sir Charles never rode anything but extremely well- 

 bred horses, " Welham," on whom he was painted in a 

 posthumous picture of the pack, by his brother-in-law, 

 Captain T. Slingsby, was a thorough-bred horse. The 

 beautiful " Eosamond," who made over 400 guineas at 

 the sale of the stud, was also clean-bred ; while on " Egg 

 Sauce " Sir Charles won the Hunt Cup on the flat at 

 Thirsk Eaces. He bought two horses on the Ash- 

 Wednesday of the first season that he took the hounds, 

 and appropriately named one " Egg Sauce " and the other 

 " Saltfish," The latter horse carried him very nearly 

 fifteen seasons, yet he scarcely looked up to his rider's 

 weight. He was a very lengthy, well-bred-looking 

 chestnut, but was a wind-sucker all his life, and never 

 carried an ounce of flesh on his bones. He was an extra- 

 ordinary performer over a country, however, a very hard 

 horse, and somehow Sir Charles generally happened to be 

 riding him whenever an exceptional run occurred. There 

 was another remarkably good horse, too, in the stud, " Daddy 

 Longlegs," so good, in fact, that the late Mr. Clare Vyner — 

 who bought him at the sale of the stud — had him prepared 

 for the Liverpool Grand National, and thought he had a 

 chance of winning it. On one occasion I was staying at 

 Newby for a meet of the Bedale Hounds, the other guests 

 being the late Mr. " Peter " Wilkinson and the late Mr. 

 John Booth, then the Master of the pack. The evening 

 before hunting, the question cropped up as to whether 

 horses could beat hounds for actual speed over a few 

 furlonos, Wilkinson and I, both well used to riding 



