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Riding recollections and turf stories . at Melton—The Brothers Behrens—The Farmers Grievances—Mr. Tailby as Huntsman andMaster—An Old English Gentleman—Qualifying Hunters 240-256CHAPTER XVII. Some Good Hunters I have ridden—Colonel Forester andGeneral Burnaby—A Near Thing at Whissendine Station—The Great Waterloo Run with the Pytchley—Colonel An-struther Thomson—A Good Run with the Duke of Beauforts 257-277 CHAPTER XVIII. About my Best Hunter, The Doctor—His Performances onthe Flat, and at Steeplechasing—How I got him—Giving The Contents xiii PAGE Doctor some Physic—The Best Horse in Leicester
Riding recollections and turf stories . at Melton—The Brothers Behrens—The Farmers Grievances—Mr. Tailby as Huntsman andMaster—An Old English Gentleman—Qualifying Hunters 240-256CHAPTER XVII. Some Good Hunters I have ridden—Colonel Forester andGeneral Burnaby—A Near Thing at Whissendine Station—The Great Waterloo Run with the Pytchley—Colonel An-struther Thomson—A Good Run with the Duke of Beauforts 257-277 CHAPTER XVIII. About my Best Hunter, The Doctor—His Performances onthe Flat, and at Steeplechasing—How I got him—Giving The Contents xiii PAGE Doctor some Physic—The Best Horse in Leicestershire—A Fast Gallop from Burdetts Covert—Sir Frederick John-stone Beaten—The Doctors Admirers—Wins the JumpingPrize at Oakham Show—A Day from Burley-on-the-Hill—Mr. Henry Chaplin gets a Fall—Frank Goodall and TheDoctor—An Anecdote about her Majesty the Queen—TheDoctors Last Run, his Accident, and Death—Piloting thePrince of Wales—Mr. Henry Chaplin as a Master—TheFinish ...... 278-304. V^mJ %\et of 3llu0tratiou6 Portrait of George Frederick. Fi-ontispiece Property of Mr. W. S. Cartwright. Winner of Derl)y, 1S74.{From a photograph by Sho-borii, Newmarket, fro)ii a pictureby Harry Hall in the possession of Mr. T. Leader.) OF Thorm.^nby . . to fcice page 26 Property of Mr. Merry. Winner of Derby, i860.{From a picture by Harry Hall in the possession of Mr. by A. L. Knigliten, Oakham.) Portrait of Lord Lyon . . to face page 48 Property of Mr. Sutton. Winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger, 1S66.{From a picture by Harry Hall in the possession of Air. Citstance. Photograph by A. L. Knigliten, Oakham.) Portrait of Achievement . to face page 52 Property of General Pearson. Winner of the One Thousand and Doncaster St. Leger, 1867.{From a picture by Harry Hall in the possession of Mi: Custance. Photograph by A. L. Knighten, Oakham.) Portrait of Broomielaw . to face page 62 Property of Mr
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