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seriously again, he was engaged in helping on the 

 revival of road coaching, which, but for him, would 

 perhaps never have been brought about successfully 

 at all. The Duke drove many a load down to see 

 those early polo matches in which Lord Worcester 

 took part. I think, as the former watched the 

 game, then a new one to English eyes, he might 

 well have wished that in his youth such a splendid 

 pastime had been in vogue. Polo, however, was 

 hardly much known until 1872, and Lord Worcester 

 had established his reputation as a master of hounds 

 by the Greatwood run before he began to play. 



There is probably no better account of this run 

 than that published in Bailys Magazine, and which 

 has been re-published in that useful vade mecum 

 Bailys Hunting Directory. The map is reprinted 

 here, in order that those who wish to do so, may 

 once more trace out the course of a fox-chase, 

 which is perhaps the most wonderful ever seen. 



This run takes its place in the history of hunt- 

 ing with that of Mr. Anstruther Thomson, from 

 Waterloo Gorse, or the Duke of Rutland's wonderful 

 hunt from Jericho Covert. But of all these famous 

 chases none can compare with the Greatwood run 

 in straightness of course, the variety of country 

 crossed, or the distance between the extreme points, 

 Grittenham, Greatwood and High worth. It began 

 in the Beaufort country, crossed the Vale of White 

 Horse, and ended in Old Berkshire territory. The 

 distance was fourteen miles from point to point, and 



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