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of Buzzard, Muley, and Venison, through Phoenix, 

 Galaor, and RavenhilL Lanercost was foaled in the 

 west of the county, not far from the farm-house where 

 old Velocipede died in 1850, and won his first victories 

 under Harry Edwards (who was then a Carlisle V.S.), 

 for Mr. John Ramshay, of Naworth Barns, who owned 

 his sire, Liverpool, and also bred and ran the iron- 

 legged Naworth and Mosstrooper. British Yeoman, 

 who is, to our minds, the best-looking Liverpool horse 

 left, and won the Royal Agricultural blood-prize in 

 1855, still sticks to Cumberland, where his stock are 

 so much valued that his owner lately refused 500 

 guineas from an Irish breeder for him. The hunters 

 by him, so far, have been of a capital stamp. Mr. 

 James Fawcett, of Scaleby Castle, and Mr. R. Fergus- 

 son, send several young bay coach-horses to the New- 

 castle and Yorkshire fairs ; and Mr. Charles Philips, of 

 Cracrop, in the same county, is indisputably the most 

 successful English breeder of the pure Clydesdale 

 cart-horses. One of his two-year-olds was so much 

 fancied when he arrived in Canada that he was sold 

 at 4J". Zd. per pound, and realized upwards of 400/. 

 on his weight. This is " Mr. Briggs's" querist over 

 again — ** How much a pound if I take the whole of 

 him .''" The grey sixteen-three Merry Tom, who has 

 scaled one ton four stone, and measured 8 feet 11 

 inches round, is the best Mr. Philips ever had ; he has 

 already won four medals and about 240/. in cash, and 

 was selected by a Scotch club for three seasons, to 

 travel in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, where the 

 rarest Clydesdale horses are to be found. 



The Shropshire men are rather short of hunter- 

 sires, and are more careful, both as to pedigree and 

 style, in their hunter-breeding, than the Yorkshire- 

 men. In fact, many dealers maintain that the large 

 bodies and the little heads come out of Shropshire, 

 and the little bodies and large heads from Yorkshire. 

 The probable explanation of this is, that the York- 



