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have always sinnmered tliein in the stahle with open doors, 

 over which canvas can be put if necessary, iuid they have 

 one honr's exercise a day to keep up their condition. 



As regards the condition of hunters, there is only one 

 sort of horse which can get to the end of a severe run in 

 deep ground with the Warwickshire hounds. He niuyt 

 have at least a year in him of the condition of a good 

 hunting stable, and he should not be let entirely out of 

 condition during the summer.* A first-class horse should 

 never be parted with, but should be ridden from year to 

 year as long as he can go well. Old hunters must, of 

 course, be replaced, but to sell a stud annually, or to sell a 

 good horse just when he has reached his best, and to 

 replace him by a new one, means that the latter, probably 

 not in condition, will not carry his owner to the end of a 

 first-class run. If a hunter is to accomplish this he should 

 be got in such condition as will as nearly as possible 

 approach the splendid form into which the Warwickshire 

 hounds have been brought by Lord Willoughby de Broke 

 and his kennel huntsman Jack Boore. — C. M. 



January ISth, Wolford Village. — Fouud at the Wood, aud away directly 

 towards Dunsden, passed it jnst 011 our left, aud went nearly up to Todeuhani 

 Village ; crossed the road just between that and Little Wolford, and just 

 skirted Bull's Grorse, and crossed the Stour, pointing for Tidmington. turned 

 to the right, and went straight up Brailes Hill ; forty minutes without a cheek. 

 At this time there was heavy snow, and we got to slow hunting, the ground 

 being very hard at the top of the hill. Ran down again tliroiigh Gherringtoii 

 Village and Whichford Village, and left Whichford Wood on the right, and 

 pointed for the Heythroj) country. When we got on the top of the hill the 

 hounds kept turning to the right, as if for Rollwright, and we stopped them, as 

 it was as hard as iron, and about three inches of snow. A good run of two 

 hours. Rode Bowman and Be Quick. 



February lOtli, Wolford Village. — Found at the Wood, and ran about it 

 with bad foxes till two o'clock. Got away at last on the back of a fox, and 

 raced him to ground in a drain under a gateway close to Dunsden Coppice. 

 Bolted and killed. Found at Blackwell Bushes, and ran up Ilmington Hill, 

 then down nearly to Blackwell again, then up again, and by Stoke Wood, 



* Horses were always turned out to grass in the summer before " Ninirod " wrote his 

 book on " Conditioning the Hunter." A man described his horse, which was for sale, 

 as having only two faults : " Very hard to catch, and good for nothing when you caught 

 him." Another man described his horse as a very honest one. He said that when he 

 went out riding he always threatened to throw him, and, by George, he always did. — 

 Sporting Magazine. — H. C. N. 



