their  Breeding  and  Management. 
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time  I have  a great  fancy  for  ‘ Uncas,’  * now  located  at  Neasham 
Stud  Farm.  These  horses  I have  mentioned  got  hunters,  and 
the  very  best,  out  of  half-bred  mares,  mares  that  you  found 
working  on  the  land,  with  quick  action,  good  constitutions,  and 
on  short  legs,  and  what  I may  term  roomy  mares  ; not  heavy- 
legged cart-mares,  but  such  as  were  formerly  used  in  Cleveland. 
“ I remember,  as  a boy,  riding  a horse  by  ‘ President,’  out  of 
a butcher’s  hack,  and  this  horse  my  father  sold  for  a very  long 
price  into  Leicestershire,  and  for  many  years  he  could  not  be 
beaten  with  fourteen  stone  on  his  back.  Another  instance ; my 
father  bought  a 3-years’-old  colt  by  ‘ President  ’ from  a really 
good  Cleveland  mare,  which  turned  out  well  ; he  rode  the  horse 
himself  with  his  own  hounds  and  with  Mr.  Millbanke’s  for  two 
years,  then  sold  him  to  the  late  Sir  Harry  Gooderick  for  400 
guineas.  At  the  end  of  the  hunting  season  Sir  H.  wrote  to  my 
father,  stating  that  ‘ The  Primate,’  as  the  horse  was  called,  was, 
out  of  fifty-two,  the  best  in  his  stable.  He  also  sold  a famous 
horse  to  the  Earl  of  Darlington,  afterwards  the  Duke  of  Cleve- 
land, for  400  guineas,  by  ‘ Woldsman,’  out  of  a plough-mare  : this 
horse  could  not  be  beaten  with  fifteen  stone  on  his  back  across  any 
country  with  hounds.  Another  beautiful  weight-carrying  hunter 
my  father  sold  to  the  late  Sheldon  Cradock  for  400  guineas  ; he 
was  by  ‘ Petronius,’  out  of  a Cleveland  mare.  I may  mention 
that  the  Cleveland  mares  in  those  days  were  clean-legged,  good 
steppers,  and  full  of  pluck.  I saw  a farmer  one  day,  when  we 
were  hunting  with  the  late  Ralph  Lambton,  take  his  mare  from 
the  plough,  jump  on  to  her  bare  back,  with  winker-bridle,  and 
collar  round  her  neck,  and  go  for  about  five  miles  across  country, 
take  every  fence  before  him,  and  was  there  when  we  killed  our 
fox  ; this  very  mare  afterwards  bred  some  famous  hunters  crossed 
with  old  ‘ MacOrville.’ 
“ I have  had  myself  many  first-rate  hunters  by  old  ‘ President,’ 
‘ MacOrville,’  and  ‘ Perion  ;’  one  horse,  by  ‘ President,’  bred  by 
Mr.  Riggof  ^ afforth,  out  of  a plough-mare.  The  late  Mr.  John 
Booth  of  Killerby  bought  this  horse  for  me,  rising  4 years  old 
I called  him  ‘Jim  Crow,’  and  in  the  great  Hurworth  runs,  when 
Frank  Coates  was  huntsman,  Mr.  Cookson  on  ‘ Old  Roderick,’ 
by  ‘ Bob  Logic  Rev.  H.  Dyke,  of  Long  Newton,  on  his  famous 
‘ President  ’ mare  with  one  cross,  and  myself  on  ‘ Jim  Crow,’  were 
always  in  a good  position  over  all  kinds  of  country.  Another 
fine  mare,  by  ‘MacOrville,’  dam  a Cleveland  mare,  I bought 
from  Mr.  John  Parrington  ; no  day  was  too  long  for  her,  and 
no  country  too  stiff.  I sold  her  to  the  Hon.  Henry  Willoughby, 
afterwards  Lord  Middleton  ; his  huntsman,  Morgan,  told  me  she 
* “ ‘Uncas,’  30  public  mares  at  30  guineas  and  1 guinea  the  groom.” — Adver- 
tisement, ‘ York  Herald,’  February  17th,  1883. 
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