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its rider in touch with the pack, and it is needless to 

 speculate on the part the half-bred animal could take in 

 such a gallop. 



One more example of endurance, and this subject will 

 be finished. This time I will select an animal not in 

 the Stud Book, for though her dam, Kitty, an Irish-bred 

 mare, was a winner of steeplechases, her pedigree was 

 unknown. Kittiwake herself was by Speculum, and was 

 sired by him the second year he was at the stud ; and 

 besides running second in 1879 she won the Light-weight 

 Grand Military at Punchestown the following year by 

 several lengths, ridden by that excellent jockey, the late 

 Captain W. B. Morris, of the 7th Hussars. She also ran 

 third for a two-mile hunters' race at the Curragh, 

 in a large field, ridden by myself when carrying the 

 prohibitive weight of 13 st. 4 lbs. I possessed but two 

 horses at that time, both of which I rode as my chargers, 

 and Kittiwake being the stouter of the twain was usually 

 selected for riding with the Ward Union Staghounds, 

 then at the summit of their renown, under the guidance 

 of the late Leonard Morrogh. It was the period when 

 the late Empress of Austria hunted in Meath, who was 

 ever close to the pack, being splendidly mounted, and one 

 of the best riders that ever graced a hunting-field. At 

 that time a famous deer tenanted the paddocks at the 

 Ashbourne kennels, of whom it used to be said she never 

 was taken under fifteen miles ; and on two occasions she 

 far exceeded this distance, when I happened to have the 

 luck to be out, and riding Kittiwake. It was in 1879, and 

 on the first occasion we met at the " Black Bull," eleven 

 and a half English miles from Dublin. The Enfield Doe 

 led us very straight, and after crossing the well-known 

 Bush Farm with its formidable fences she left Dun- 

 shaughlin about a mile to the left, went past Gerrards- 

 town, and was taken near Boyne View, about a mile from 

 Navan, a distance of nineteen miles in a straight line on 

 the map, and, of course, much further as the hounds ran. 



On the other occasion, on March 5th, the Enfield Doe 

 was turned out at I^orman's Grove, ten English miles from 



