The Ballymacad Hounds at the Show 



ONE parade of the Inter-Hunt teams at Dublin 

 Horse Show possessed a distinctly individual flavour. 

 It was headed by the hounds of the Ballymacad Hunt, 

 and the traditional scarlet coats that we are so accus- 

 tomed to associate with hunting gave pride of place, 

 for the first time in the history of the Show, to coats 

 of dark green. 



Green is the age-old uniform of this hunt whose 

 territory comprises the western extremity of County 

 Meath, eastern borders of Cavan and portion of West- 

 meath. Variety is the key-note on the menu of this 

 very sporting, two-days-a-week pack, and these hounds 

 can serve up a delicious hors-d'oeuvre to whet the 

 appetite of any diner who has his heart in the right 

 place. 



There is a dash of Galway in the grey walls around 

 Crossdrum and Bolie's Cross, a tang of Tipperary in 

 the banks around Drumlerry and the valley under 

 Crossakiel, and might not the towering, heather-clad 

 hills of historic Fore be the Kerry Hills of the Shrop- 

 shire-Montgomeryshire border or the more rugged 

 majesty of the English Fell country ? And where in 

 the whole wide world will one hear better hound-music 

 than when the pack are driving their fox through the 



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