Description | Includes references to having not succeeded for Grimston in the mare he mentioned; the owner of the mare being Mr Meeke, who has been laid up by a shot he received from a gun, which had made him think of parting with most of his hunters and particularly his grey mare, her being too slight for him, but he being perfectly restor[e]d and the mare having performed some extraordinary feats he cannot be prevailed upon [to part with her] and it being the difficultest thing in the world to come at a good horse |