mind on, till in despair he put his short-legged cart- 

 mare to a thoroughbred horse. 



"Her first filly was laid up in lavender till she 

 was rising five, and then crossed with a thoroughbred, 

 and this union inaugurated a long line of fast, weight- 

 carrying hunters, which have been the apple of his 

 eye for years. 



" Others, while they think that to carry weight 

 nothing can beat the cross of a blood horse with an 

 active high-shouldered cart mare, as firmly maintain 

 that the second remove is never so good as the first. 

 And on we go through a perfect bead-roll of breeding 

 specifics, alike pleasurable and speculative. 



" The best instance of the first cross that we 

 remember was a mare called " Poll of the Vale," 

 by " Great Britain," who was bought at four years 

 old out of a team for ^28, with hair enough 

 on her legs to stuff a moderate-size pillow. After 

 carrying a i 7 stone for two or three seasons, she was 

 sold for 300 guineas to the Hon. Wellesley Pole, 

 with a promise that she should be given back when 

 she could hunt no longer ; and although she passed 

 through several hands this contingency was kept 

 alive, and she died in giving birth to a colt, by 

 Vandyke junior, in her old owner's paddock. 



"A Sir Joshua mare, called Cashmere, was 

 similarly bred, and after being bought at Melton Fair 

 for £38, passing through Mr. Maxse's hands, and 

 makmg 350 guineas at Tattersall's, she became the 

 property of the late Mr. John Moore, of the Old 



