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back across any country with hounds. Another 

 beautiful weight-carrying hunter my father sold to 

 the late Mr. Sheld, of Craddock, for 400 guineas ; 

 he was by Petronius, out of a Cleveland mare. I 

 may mention that the Cleveland mares in these days 

 were good steppers and full of pluck. I saw a farmer 

 one day, when we were hunting with the later 

 Ralph Lambton, take his mare from the plough, 

 jump on her back, with winkers, bridle, and collar 

 round her neck, and go for about five miles across 

 country, and take every fence before him, and was 

 there when we killed our fox : this very mare after- 

 wards bred some famous hunters crossed with old 

 MacOrville. 



"I had myself," he goes on to say, " many first- 

 rate hunters by old President, by MacOrville, and 

 Perion ; one horse by President, bred by Mr. Rigg, 

 of Yafforth, out of a plough mare. 



" Another fine mare by MacOrville, dam a 

 Cleveland mare, I bought from Mr. J. Parrington — - 

 no day was too long for her, and no country tpo stiff 

 1 sold her to the Hon. H. Willoughby, afterwards 

 Lord Middleton ; his huntsman, Morgan, told me 

 she was the very best hunter he ever crossed. I 

 also sold a horse by Perion, similarly bred, to 

 Mr. Willoughby, which proved a grand hunter. 

 John Payne, of Market Harborough, bought many 

 hunters from me by President and Perion, out of 

 Cleveland mares, and they always gave great 

 satisfaction." 



