THOROUGH-BRED HORSES 



twenty-four hours, and transferred the colt to 

 the hunting-stables. Mr. Cooke rode nothing 

 but this class, nor indeed could any animal less 

 speedy than a race-horse, sustain the pace he 

 liked to Q-Q. 



Whitenose, a beautiful animal that the late 

 Sir Richard Sutton affirmed was not only the 

 best hunter he ever owned, but that he ever 

 saw or heard of, and on whose back he is painted 

 in Sir F. Grant's spirited picture of the Cottesmore 

 Meet, was also quite thorough-bred. When Sir 

 Richard hunted the Br.rton country, Whitenose 

 carried him through a run so severe in pace and 

 of such long duration, that not another horse 

 got to the end, galloping, his master assured 

 me, steadily on without a falter, to the last. By 

 the way, he was then of no great age, and nearer 

 sixteen hands than fifteen-two ! This was a very 

 easy horse to ride, and could literally jump 

 anything he got his nose over. A picture to 

 look at, with a coat like satin, the eyes of a 

 deer, and the truest action in his slow as in his 

 fast paces, he has always been my ideal of 

 perfection in a hunter. 



But it would be endless to enumerate the 

 many examples I can recall of the thorough-bred's 

 superiority in the hunting-field. Those I have 

 mentioned belong to a bygone time, but a man 

 need not look very narrowly into any knot of 



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