190 Saddle and Sirloin. 



points for mellow handling than for gaiety of form. 

 He went not so much for size as for neatness and 

 quality, and at Dublin he was in the minority when 

 Rosette was drawn against Sweetheart for the first 

 cow prize, and he took good care to let his opinions 

 be known. He couldn't see it at all, and led many a 

 breeder up to the pair in the course of the day, and 

 with that odd jerk of his stick, proceeded to argue 

 out the point on which " Mr. Stratton had been so 

 stiff." Very few, if any, had finer taste, but he was 

 not free from that peculiar cynicism in describing a 

 beast which is the vice of so many good judges. Part 

 is spoken of as though it were the whole, and there is 

 no balance of points. Thus, if he spoke of Belleville, 

 he would say, " If you backed his hind-quarters into 

 a hedge he was good enough," and left it ; and unless 

 you pressed him hard you heard nothing of his beau- 

 tiful head and forequarters, and " soft, molelike skin." 

 We believe that he had been at very few shows since 

 the Leeds Royal, and that for many months back he 

 had been in a very failing state — so much so, that it 

 was hardly thought that he would see the New Year 

 in. He was one of the last of those " grave and 

 potent seniors " whose fine experience we can so ill 

 afford to lose. 



His brother, Mr. J. C. Maynard, was known as the 

 owner of the bull Match'em and the cow Portia, but 

 his fame principally rested on his horses. Mr. Dyson 

 called him " the Yorkshire judge," and he had gene- 

 rally ten to twenty carriage horses for the London 

 dealers at Northallerton Candlemas Fair. His son 

 Anthony of Skinningrove inherits his tastes, and 

 frequently judges in the Northern rings. For five- 

 and-twenty years, while Mr. Maynard lived at his 

 Harlsey estate, he kept harriers in the Northallerton 

 country. He dearly loved Old President and Sir 

 Harry Dinsdalc horses. It was on Example by the 

 former, when he was riding i6st., that he had the best 



