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purchased for 100 guineas by Mr. Starkey when he 

 won the Pony Sire prize at Chester. As a getter ot 

 race-horses, " The Yeoman " had but very httle scope ; 

 and high as his hunter name so deservedly stands, 

 there would have been but very few to touch him it 

 he had been less indiscriminate in his favours. 



The dams of Wee Willie and Lanercost Death of Liver- 

 were almost the only blood mares that p°°^- 

 came to Liverpool at Naworth his first season, and 

 Lanercost was in verity his first begotten, and from a 

 mare who had been bought from Lord Egremont by 

 one of his Cockermouth tenants for something under 

 ftfteen pounds. In 1844, the old horse was sold for 

 two thousand to the French Government, but he died 

 before he was delivered. He had narrowly escaped, 

 along with 



"The slight and slender jasmine tree, 

 That blooms on my Border tower," 



being burnt alive amid the ruins of Naworth Castle, 

 only to meet a less glorious fate. During the con- 

 fusion which ensued for the next two or three weeks, 

 he was left to incompetent hands to physic, and his 

 gut was so much torn by their previous back raking, 

 that the glyster passed into his bowels, and he died in 

 most fearful pain. 



In spite of this misfortune with him, Mr. Lanercost 

 Ramshay did well with his sons Naworth, 

 Moss Trooper, and Broadwath, and still better with 

 Lanercost, whom he bought as a yearling for 120 

 guineas, from the owner of his dam, Otis. He was 

 an enormous feeder, and became so thick and fat that 

 he was sent oft' to Tom Dawson's to do gentle work 

 at Middleham, all his two-j^ear-old season. The 

 coarse head and neck, the latter of which assumed a 

 ewe shape in many of his stock, were all there then ; 

 and slug as he was, he could always, as if in anticipa- 

 tion of Ascot, make the liveliest resistance if any 

 medicine was to be put down him. When they first 



