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Richmond was beat by upwards of a hundred yards, and 

 the bitch ne\'er run in at all. The ground was crossed 

 in a few seconds more than eight minutes. Threescore 

 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 on a King's Plate horse called Rib, 

 was in 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.' 



That can be hardly said, however, to bear out Mr 

 Delmd-Radcliffe's contention that 'foxhounds have 

 beaten trained racehorses when the two have been 

 matched.' 



' Mr Delm^-Radclifife,' writes one who knew him well, 

 ' had a pattern seat on horseback, and without being 

 a 'bruiser' like his friend the Honourable Edward 

 Grimston, could always bring his theory into practice 

 and prove that he could ride, as well as write on the 

 method of putting horses at their fences and keeping 

 a place. He was in the first flight long after he had 

 passed sixty.' 



I have already alluded to Mr Delme-Radcliffe's 

 literary attainments, but they were so considerable that 

 they deserve more extended notice. He was the author 

 of some rattling hunting songs, which still hold their 

 place in the literature of the Chase, and under the 

 fiovi de guerre of ' The Country Squire,' he was well 

 known as a contributor both in prose and verse to the 

 journals of the time. When 'The Splendid Strollers,' 

 Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, John Forster & Co., 



