THE WESTCHESTER 



and after a Committee and Mr. Pelham-Clinton had carried the harriers 

 through the season of 1 888, hounds and horses were sold and raffled, and 

 the Hunt re-organized as the Westchester Hunt, with Mr. T. A. Havemeyer 

 as Master and a new pack with kennels at White Plains. For the follow- 

 ing ten seasons, the hounds continued to hunt from White Plains until Mr. 

 Havemeyer resigned in 1 895 and Mr. N. C. Reynal was elected in his place. 



Mr. R. F. Todd and Mr. W. E. Iselin followed Mr. Reynal, each of 

 them remaining in office for one season only, when Mr. E. S. Reynal was 

 elected and served until 1 90 1 . The younger Mr. Reynal began his Mas- 

 tership by disposing of the harriers and substituting a pack of English fox- 

 hounds, and this proving on the whole a satisfactory change, the Hunt has 

 continued to keep the same type of hound ever since. 



Mr. Reynal resigned in 1 90 1 , being followed by Mr. Howard Willets, 

 who remained in office one season, resigning in 1 902 in favour of Mr. Louis 

 Fitzgerald, who carried the horn to the satisfaction of everyone until his 

 tragic death in 1905, when Mr. Reynal was again persuaded to fill the 

 office which he has ever since retained. Various drafts from the Pytchley, 

 and from the Middlesex, have recruited the Westchester pack from time to 

 time, and the quality of the hounds has steadily improved during the second 

 Mastership of Mr. Reynal until at present there are about fifteen couples of 

 very level, good-looking hounds in the Westchester kennels. 



In 1906, Messrs. Reynal and Potter purchased the Clinchy farm, 

 about three miles northeast of White Plains, and fitted up the farmhouse for 

 a club. On June 1 st of that year the Hunt was re-organized under the new 

 title of " Westchester County Hunt," and taking a ten-year lease with pur- 

 chase privileges, moved the hounds into their present kennels. 



The country lies north of a line drawn from Mamaroneck to White Plains, 

 with the Hariem Division of the New York Central R. R. bounding it east 

 and west, and extending north into Fairfield County, Connecticut. Its char- 

 acter is varied, requiring much jumping, as the enclosures are cramped, with 

 fences not always as small as one might wish. There are few rail fences; 

 perhaps one in a run, stone walls being the rule, and as there is breadth 

 as well as height to be cleared, a bold, fast jumper is the horse needed. 



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