94 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1883 



hounds ran wonld be twelve miles at least. The pace was very fast throughout, 

 and, though the run was mostly over grass, the country was very heavy, and 

 the fences big and untrimmed, as everyone acquainted with Warwickshire 

 knows. By the time Catesby was reached the field was sjjread out after the 

 manner of the tail of the late comet. The noble master was in his usual place 

 — the first throughout — and I must add that one lady of the Yerney family 



went like a Bird.* 



St. Hubeet. 



Lord Willougliby de Broke 's diary : 



January SOtJi, Weston House. — Did nothing in the morning. As we were 

 coming home, a fox jumped out of a hedge just before the pack, and close to 

 Kirby, and ran down by Oxhill Village nearly to Tysoe, and turned to the 

 left, and went l)y Spencer's Gorse to Brailes Hill, at the top of which we 

 stopped the pack with difficulty, after thirty-five minutes without a check. 



I remember well hearing about this run. Miss Carewf 

 was the only one who saw it, wdth the exception of the 

 Master and his staff. They were coming home by Kirby 

 when a fox jumped out of the hedge. His lordship 

 shouted " Let 'em go," and away they went. There was 

 a good deal of chaff that evening with Miss Carew, who 

 was riding her celebrated mare Dutch Sauce, bought from 

 Mr. Holland Corbett, as she declared that her mare was 

 much too fast for her leader's horse, and that she had the 

 greatest difficulty in not jumping upon him, as his horse 

 rapped every bit of timber. His lordship declared it was 

 all the other way, but those w^ho remember how Dutch 

 Sauce could gallop and jump and never tired, know which 

 to believe.— W. K. V. 



February 8th, Lower Shuchburgh. — Found at the hill, ran towards Napton, 

 turned to the left, and jDassed Priors Marstou to the loft, and pointed for 

 Priors Hardwick, Ijiit got run out of scent near the canal, after rvinning thirty 

 minutes. Found at Ladbroke Gorse, ran by Nuuu's Bushes, and swung 



*Mr. Stii'ling Stewart (Mr. Everard's uepliew), who wa3 a desperate man to hounds 

 about tills time, rode very hard in this run. I remember taking the lady mentioned in 

 the Field account to a meet at Shuckburgh. She rode a blood horse of Mr. Ford's 

 that had never carried a lady, and perhaps very few men. We had a sharp scm-ry from 

 Savvstidge to Flecknoe. I was standing on the hill when she came up. Her face was 

 all scratched, her horse's head was all over mud and grass, her breastplate was broken, 

 and she u'as carrying her stirriip in her hand. "Where have yoit, been?" I said. 

 "Oh, I've been following Mr, Stewart." "So I should think!" was the natural 

 rejoinder. Very few could beat him as long as hounds ran xierfectly straight. He only 

 rode in one steeplechase in his life, and then he was nearly killed. — W. E. V. 



t The six best horsewomen I have ever seen are this lady, Mrs. Tyi-whitt, Lady 

 Alexander Paget, the Hon. Mrs. Mundy, the Duchess of Hamilton, and Miss Naylor, — 

 W. R. V, 



