2 8 Hark Away. 



follow their leaders when the signal was given. At 

 12.25 the start was effected in the following 

 order : — 



First, the Duke of Beaufort, heading the pro- 

 cession as president of the Club ; followed in rotation 

 by Colonel Ewart, Count Miinster, Mr. H. W. Eaton, 

 the Marquis of Worcester, Lord Abingdon, Sir 

 Thomas Peyton, Lord Arthur Somerset ; the drag of 

 the 1st Life Guards, the Marquis of Waterford, the 

 Orleans Club coach, driven by Captain Wombwell ; 

 Lord Aveland, the secretary of the Club, who was 

 honoured with the company of his Serene Highness 

 the Duke of Teck ; General Dickson, Viscount 

 Castlereagh, Captain AVhitmore, Lord Tredegar, Mr. 

 Adrian Hope, Lord Sefton, Mr. W. A. Oakley, the 

 Hon. F. Villers, Lord Macduff, Sir Henry Tufton, 

 Lord Londesborough, Lord Bective, Sir Henry 

 IMe^^sey - Thompson, and Captain J. Anstruther 

 Thompson — twenty-five in all. 



A grander display of coaches, finer horses or 

 better coachmanship, it has never been my good 

 fortune to witness. To speak in praise of the teams 

 coached by the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of 

 Worcester, or Lord Arthur Somerset, is merely to 

 reiterate a remark that is patent to every one who 

 has any knowledge of the art of driving. Not to 

 notice such turn-outs as those of the Marquis of 

 Waterford, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. W. A. Oakley, 

 Lord Macduff, and, notably, the admirably matched 

 and excellent team of dark-brown horses ^ of Sir 

 Henry Tufton, would be to proclaim one's ignorance; 

 not to recollect that Sir Thomas Peyton adheres to 

 the colour which the late Sir Henry invariably chose 



