THE BADMINTON HUNT 



of Percy Barker, who was one of the little band 

 who saw the Greatwood fox marked to ground, 

 of Captain Bill, Lord Rossmore, Mr. T. Saville, 

 T. Donovan, Captain Coote, Mr. Hynam the 

 famous farmer, whose good cob carried Lord Wor- 

 cester during the closing scenes of the great run, 

 Mr. Eustace Chaplin, who also had the extra- 

 ordinary good fortune to be out on the great Water- 

 loo day, and Colonel Ewart. 



We will turn aside to recall some few of the 

 famous horses of the hunt. At all times since the 

 days of the first Duke, many horses have been bred 

 at Badminton. In the early part of the nineteenth 

 century, there were many sons and daughters of 

 " Sop," and Dairymaid, a daughter of his, was the 

 dam of Milkmaid, Will Long's favourite horse. 

 Then, in later years, came Black Sultan from Shrop- 

 shire, then as now a famous horse-raising country. 

 Most of Sultan's stock were small horses. 



The demand on horseflesh of the Badminton 

 stables was always great. In the year that Lord 

 Worcester (afterwards eighth Duke) came of age, 

 the stud consisted of sixty horses. Of those, six 

 were kept entirely for the Duke's own riding. Lord 

 Worcester had eight, and each of the hunt servants 

 six. The stamp of horse was much the same as I 

 can recollect seeing in the stables when I was shown 

 over them by the late Lord Edward Somerset. 

 They were all big thoroughbred horses. 



It was the custom at one time for hounds to be 



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