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Criffell ; Lady Solway, that great nursing mother ot 

 Cumberland ham, flourished at Solway House ; Maid 

 of the Mill, Beckford, and the Blackstock "belles" 

 have done their work near Allonby for Lytham and 

 Waterloo ; Casson's future gold medal hunter Com- 

 missioner hails from Burgh ; and Crafty,* " the queen 

 of the hackneys," is in her box at Howsenrigg, with 

 George Mulcaster as her proud esquire. Amid the 

 rich pastures and " black dairies " of the Abbey 

 Holme, lived " Sammy Rigg," that head-centre of 

 Cumberland "statesmen," as famed for his swedes 

 and Galloways as Mr. Rooke for his views on " Corn 

 and Currency." There, too, once upon a time, Pearson 

 of Langrigg had forty greys, all by Old Conqueror, 

 from mares by The Earl and Grand Turk. Brayton, 



* Crafty, bred by Mr. A. Dalzell, of Stainbum Hall, Workington, 

 in 1858, is by The Judge, out of a mare by Nimrod (h.-b. son of Muley), 

 her dam a hackney mare of unknown pedigree, the property of the late 

 Dr. Dickinson, of Workington. The Judge, bred by Mr. A. Dalzell 

 in 1850, was by Galaor, out of Cerito (sister to The Currier) by The 

 Saddler, out of Amaryllis by Cervantes. The Judge was not much of a 

 racehorse, though he ran repeatedly in Mr. Dalzell's colours ; while we 

 hear he is the sire of very good riding stock in the Carlisle and Cumber- 

 land country. Crafty was purchased when a yearling at 20/. for Mr. 

 H. J. Percy, of Howsenrigg, Aspatria, by his manager, the now well- 

 known George Mulcaster, who brought her out in the same year 1859, 

 when she was first shown and placed third to two half-brothers by The 

 Judge, in the yearling class of hunting colts and fillies at the Cockermouth 

 Meeting of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Agricultural Society. 

 In the same year Crafty took the first prize of 2 sovs. for yearling fillies 

 by The Judge, and the second prize for yearling saddle or harness fillies, 

 at the Wigton Agricultural Society's Show, &c. Crafty is a rich 

 dappled brown mare, standing fifteen hands one inch and a half high, 

 and girthing six feet two and a half. She has a neat sensible head, with 

 a good eye and a nicely crested neck, running into well-raised withers. 

 She has a full chest, with beautifully laid shoulders, a capital barrel 

 and back, with good round quarters and well-developed arms and 

 thighs. Then her joints are excellent, her legs and feet first-rate, while 

 she is full of power without lumber, but with plenty of length, hardy 

 looks, and especially grand-taking action, &c. — Farmers' Magazine. — 

 [Since the above was written, she has won an enormous number of 

 prizes. She has had three colts and a filly, two of the former by Motley, 

 and the latter by her own sire.] 



