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so was the mean crooked-ankled dam of Castrel, 

 Reubens, and Selim (all by Buzzard), whose New- 

 market owner, Mr. Sandiver, would often ride her for 

 a bye hour on to the Heath, which was to be trodden 

 by such countless winning descendants, on his way to 

 see patients on the race afternoons. 



The Cure, rogue as he ran in the St. Leger, was a 

 great favourite in the North Riding, from whence he 

 emigrated to Lincolnshire, and his stock invariably 

 catch his finely-chiselled head and fiery eye. In the 

 hunting classes at one of the Catterick Horse Shows, 

 we find him the favoured sire of the " best colt 

 foal for the field," while President, Voltigeur, and his 

 brother Barnton, were alike honoured in the competi- 

 tion of yearling, two-year-old, and four-year-old 

 " colts or fillies." The Sandbeck toast of " King and 

 Catton" might be drunk without any inappropriate- 

 ness at a hunt-dinner, as the old horse has left a long 

 line of stout hearts behind him. The Duke of Buc- 

 cleuch's Norman by Scarborough, who carried Wil- 

 liamson through many seasons, after being ridden by 

 one of the whips for two, is his grandson, and was bred 

 along with an elder brother, fifteen-three, and with bay 

 and black legs like himself, in Dalkeith Park. Norman 

 is one of those wonderfully docile handy horses, who 

 seems as if he " could canter round a cabbage," and 

 owing to their stoutness, the pair have generally gone 

 by the name, in the Hunt, of Stuffie Major and Stuffie 

 Minor. Some call them " Huffy ;" but, if Jamieson's 

 Scottish Dictionary be any authority, they pay them 

 a very ill compliment by such a nomenclature. Car- 

 dinal Puff's stock w^ere rather few in number, but his 

 hunters were much liked ; and Melbourne's half-bred 

 stock is generally coarse and overgrown. The Rat- 

 catchers have been successful, and Theon's stock are 

 generally very true-made and handsome, but we do 

 not like the style of the Liverpools we have seen at 

 the cover-side, as they rather partake of his tendency 



