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querulous sighings after old times, and was content 

 to enjoy the good of the present without comparing 

 it with the past. At the death of the cowkeeper, 

 where he put up for forty years, he moved to Bennit- 

 thorpe, and lodged during the meeting with Sir 

 George Cholmley* and his son. About half-past ten 

 the three would be seen coming over the Hall Cross 

 hill to the sale-rings ; and there Sir Tatton stood on 

 Mr. Tattersall's left, with his faithful " Richard" at 

 hand to note the prices for him. The crack men 

 would always have a word and a joke with him : he 

 said that Captain White's cheery laugh did him as 

 much good as anything in the whole year ; and Mr. 

 Greville and all of them drew up, when it oozed out 



* Sir George Cholmley divides his "Cholmley chestnuts" between 

 Boynton, Howsham, and Newton. Hubert's paddocks are at the first- 

 named place, and Angelus is the guardian angel of the last. For many 

 years Sir George did not keep a sire, but used Sir Tatton's. When 

 they were at Doncaster together one year, Sir George recommended 

 Womersley to his old friend, and hence that Irish Birdcatcher chestnut 

 went to Sledmere for a season. Codrington (who got his stock with 

 rare shoulders and pretty little heads) was by him, and was one of those 

 which William Day passed over, when he had his choice of "all the 

 sort." Sir George declared that he had passed the best, and offered 

 40 guineas to have his pick of the draft. Codrington lamed himself off 

 a mare, and was ultimately sold to Vienna. Record by Emilius was 

 another purchase ; and Orpheus, who is still on the Wolds at Kilham, 

 cost 40 guineas at Tattersall's. Angelus was by him from Nutmeg, a 

 Nassau Stakes winner of Lord Exeter's, which was purchased at Don- 

 faster. He ran five times as a two-year-old, and was second to Little 

 Stag at Beverley. At one time he was rather talked of for the St. 

 Leger ; but he was a large, fat colt, and therefore excessively difficult 

 to prepare. Sir George has about twenty thorough-bred and ten half- 

 bred mares ; and winners of the Great National Steeplechase and 

 Hunters Stakes are his specialty. The park seems full of matrons with 

 chestnut Angelus and brown Hubert foals. Among the mares we note 

 Barnacles, the dam of Highflyer the steeple-chaser ; Whitefeet of the 

 Hexgrave family ; Miss Taylor by Orpheus, the dam of Belinda ; and 

 Hexgrave^s dam, a Sleight-of-Hand mare, with white spots round the 

 eyes. There are three cups at Newton, won respectively by Adonis, 

 The Don, and Peep o' Day Boy ; and Mr. Thompson, Mr. Boynton, 

 and Mr. Spence have been in the "black-yellow sleeves and black 



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Angelus has won three Yorkshire prizes in succession, and during 



