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dering on the seraphic) straightway inquired, "Are ive 

 to lenk right forard at that tiling ? proceed /" and 

 the operator did proceed, and hit them off the 

 first time, and several visitors ordered a copy on the 

 spot. 



Croft, at whose inn Thormanby, Lord of the Isles, 

 Oxford, Costa, Scottish Chief, and Loiterer have all 

 stood under Tom Winteringham's charge, and in whose 

 paddock the weary bones of old Alice Hawthorne 

 are at rest, is about three miles from Neasham Hall. 

 We pass the well-remembered kennels of the Hur- 

 worth, where Will Danby held rule so long, and the 

 paddocks of the old mare Shot. Of late years a 

 totally new set of boxes have been built at Neasham 

 Hall. The old ones did their duty, as Kettledrum, 

 Dundee, Regalia, and Mincemeat were reared there, 

 and the new have made their mark early with For- 

 mosa — a Two Thousand, One Thousand, Oaks, and 

 St. Leger winner combined — as well as " the trim 

 Brigantine." Mr. Cookson has bred four Oaks win- 

 ners in sixteen years, three of them in the last four 

 years, the first and second for the Derby in 1861, and 

 the first and second for the St. Leger in 1868. Until 

 he purchased Sweetmeat in 1847 f° r 3 00 guineas at 

 Mr. A. W. Hill's sale, he only kept two brood mares. 

 His first sire Sweetmeat stayed at Neasham for three 

 seasons, and was succeeded by Cossack, Fandango, 

 and Buccaneer for two seasons each, and by Caterer 

 and Macaroni for one each, and now Lord Lyon and 

 The Earl are in residence. The air is fine and bracing, 

 and in the lar distance the sheeted strings may be 

 seen, through a glass, at exercise near the Richmond 

 "Grey Stone Inn." There is every kind of ground in 

 the paddocks, and it is Mr. Cookson's principle never 

 to let the foals and yearlings be out longer than three 

 hours at a time. They are then taken in for two 

 hours, and, weather permitting, turned out again in 

 the course of the afternoon, and always taken in at 



