INTRODUCTION 



Upon the thirtieth of September the drag was drawn 

 (on account of running up the wind, which happened 

 to be brisk) from the Rubbing House at Newmarket 

 Town End, to the Rubbing House at the starting- 

 post of the Beacon Course ; the four hounds were 

 then laid on the scent ; Mr. Barry's Blue Cap 

 came in first, Wantoti (very close to Blue Cap) 

 second ; Mr. Meynell's Richmond was beat by 

 upwards of an hundred yards, and the Bitch never 

 run in at all ; the ground was cross'd in a few seconds 

 more than eight minutes.' Three score horses 

 started with the hounds. Cooper, Mr. Barry's 

 Huntsman, was the first up ; but the mare that 

 carried him was rode quite blind at the conclusion. 

 There were only twelve horses up out of the Sixty ; 

 and Will Crane, who was mounted upon a King's 

 plate Horse, called Rib, was in the twelfth. The 

 odds before running were seven to four in favour of 

 Mr. Meynell, whose hounds, it was said, were fed 

 during the time of training entirely with legs of 

 mutton." 



After the death of John Smith Barry, in 1784, 

 foxhounds were kept at Arley by Sir Peter War- 

 burton, and, probably as owner of the pack, a similar 

 request was made to him to sit for his picture, a full 

 length by Sir William Beechey, for which the Hunt 

 paid ^(^250 in 181 1. Sir William is said to have pro- 

 tested against the uniform, and to have declared he 

 might as well be asked to paint a parrot. 



^ Daniel does not give the year in which this match took place. 

 The letterpress under a print in my possession, engraved from a picture 

 of the race, by Sartorius, states that it was run in October 1762, over 

 the Beacon Course. 



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