110 BREEDING PONIES. 



no less a horse than Marske, the sire of 

 Eclipse, was covering in this district. The 

 Duke of Cumberland, who was Ranger of 

 the Forest, first obtained him from Mr. John 

 Hutton, of Marske in Yorkshire, after which 

 place the horse was named, in exchange for 

 a chestnut Arab. At the Duke's death 

 Ifarske was sold at Tattersall's with his 

 other horses, and bought for a trifling sum 

 by a Dorset farmer, in whose ownership he 

 covered country mares and Forest ponies at 

 half-a-guinea. The farmer after a few years 

 sold his unsuspected treasure for £20, re- 

 mai'king that he was glad to be rid of so 

 bad a bargain ! The vicissitudes, however, 

 of equine fully equal those of human life, 

 and a few years later this horse's fee as 

 advertised by his last owner. Lord Abingdon, 

 was £200, an enormous one for that, or 

 any day. After this lucky dash of warm 

 blood, pony breeding in the New Forest 

 declined again, until the Prince Consort 



