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known to sportsmen as the Vale of White Horse, and on 

 the day in question was mounted on his celebrated Apollo 

 mare, with Provincial reserved as his second horse. The 

 hounds went away at a racing pace towards Broad Hinton, 

 and Mr. Smith on Rob Roy, tliough quite a stranger to the 

 country, took his usual place, and cut out the work. His 

 Lordsliip in vain tried to catch him, until a check occurred 

 in a lane ; into this the peer jumped over a gate, and out 

 of it over another. " When liis Lordship wishes to hit off 

 his fox, he must return into this lane," said Mr. Smith to 

 the relator of the anecdote. Lord Kintore and Mr. Smith 

 frequently spoke highly of each other's riding on this 

 memorable day. Every one recollects the famous story 

 of Lord Kintore coming once to a "stopper" in the Vale 

 of W^hite Horse, which defied the whole field. Seeing a 

 countryman on the other side, " Catch my horse," exclaimed 

 hi3 Lordship, and drove at it. Both were thrown ; but the 

 rustic did as he was told, and having picked up both the 

 steed and his rider. Lord Kintore galloped away, leaving 

 his friends in mute astonishment on the wronor side of the 

 fence. It must be recollected that Lord Kintore, on the 

 above occasion at Burderop Park, had out his two best 

 horses (Provincial ^vas bought in at Tattersall's not long 

 before for 400 guineas), whereas Mr. Smith was riding Sir 

 Richard Sutton's gift horse, which no one else could ride. 



The horses he brought into Hants from Lincolnshire 

 were — Lovinski, Beiram, The Grey, Screwdriver, Young 

 Jack-o'-Lantern,* and last, though not least, Ayston. Screw- 

 driver was a fine dark chestnut, seventeen hands high : Mr. 

 Smith got him a bargain, in consequence of his having 

 come into Stamford six times without his rider. Screw- 

 driver was not his original name, but the first time the 



* There were three members of the Lontern family all celebrated, — 

 Old Jack-o'-Lantern, Young Jack-o'-Lantern, and Charlotte Lantern. 

 Mr. Smith always said that Young Jack was the best horse of tlie 

 three. 



