Hunting by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hunting, Fox hunting, CHR 1885, PRO Rogers, Fairman, 1833-1900 (donor)
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.;
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

action. Indeed at Tattersall's it is mainly a question of mone3^ The man, who does not mind opening his purse wide, will rarely fail to find himself suited, but he must open it, and wider too, it seems, every day. We are supposing, of course, that he intends buying only such horses as come to the hammer with an established and trustworthy reputation : if he buys merely because he likes the look of an animal, without knowing more about it than the person in charge or some other equally interested and communicative individual may choose to tell him, heaven help him—we cannot. In every hunt there are always a certain number of good nags whose merits are well known, and whose price can be fairly calculated. There is no better chance, for a man who need not trouble himself over-much about prices, for picking up a good hunter than this, nor does it at all follow that he will do better to buy privately than to wait and take his chance in the auction yard. When the stud is the property of some famous ' performer ' in the grass countries, of course the competition will be brisk and the prices high. When the late Lord Stamford gave up the Quorn hounds in 1863, and sent his stud to the hammer, the seventy-three horses realised nearly fourteen thousand guineas, an average of about two hundred pounds apiece, probably the highest ever known for so large a stud. In 1826 Mr. George Payne had reached an even higher average, but with a smaller stud ; his twenty-seven hunters and hacks realising a sum of seven thousand five hundred guineas.

In the autumn of 1884 the stud of a young officer, who had had to give up hunting foxes in Leicestershire for hunting Arabs in the Soudan, was sold at Tattersall's at an average of two hundred and fifty pounds apiece. The pick of the famous Lord Wilton's stable brought as much as six hundred pounds !

It is probable, however, that first-rate hunters may be bought now for rather more rational prices than our grandfathers used to give. In the palmy days of the Old Club at Melton, the buying and selling of horses was quite a feature of the evening's amusement. ' Parties were often made on purpose,' says ' The Druid,' ' and after a couple of bottles of

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