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and honourable career, first sported his boots and 

 spurs under the late Duke of Leeds, his lordship's 

 stud principally consisted of the stock of Pandolpho. 

 This horse was the sire of Mowbray, and a long series 

 of some of the very best hunters that the Yorkshire- 

 men ever crossed. When Will joined his Grace there 

 were no less than fourteen hunters by him in the 

 Duke's stables, all equally good, and up to heavy 

 weights in the longest day. They were Pan, Pande- 

 mic, Panada, Panadian, Panegyric, Pandora, Pan- 

 dolpha. Pancake, Jenny, Jacky, Mitchell, Dolly 

 Mitchell, Young Mary, and another. It was on Pan- 

 dora that Will finished almost alone on that complete 

 Billesden Coplow day, when they found a fox at 

 Howe Bank, and ran him out of Wensleydale into 

 Swaledale, and killed him at Craik pot, after a burster 

 of three hours ; while the great Applegarth Scaur day, 

 when they found above Richmond and went right 

 away into Westmoreland, fell to Young Mary's lot. 

 Pandolpho's stock were well represented in all the 

 Yorkshire hunts, and the fourteen fetched very long 

 prices when the Duke went abroad. Among other 

 hunting sires in Yorkshire during the present century, 

 Screveton by Highflyer, is entitled to a very high 

 place, and the blood of his half-brother, Sir Peter 

 Teazle, has been as well known in the field as on the 

 turf, and most especially through the Sir Harry Dims- 

 dales. The stock of the latter (who was named after 

 the mock Mayor of Garrett) were much prized in 

 Leicestershire, and their peculiar characteristics of a 

 beautiful dapple-grey, broad backs, pointed Arab-like 

 heads, and orange-shaped quarters, are still to be 

 traced to the third generation. Some would have it 

 that he was a bit of a roarer ; but at all events Mr. 

 Maxse rode 15 stone on him over Leicestershire 

 for some seasons, and Dick Christian had but little 

 fault to find with him. We once looked carefully 

 over a large field, and could find nothing of the 



