THE CHACE. 
was quickly followed by the leading characters of the 
Quorn hunt.* This system has not only continued, but 
has gained ground ; and the art of riding a chace may 
be said to have arrived at a state of perfection quite 
unknown at any other period of time. That a drawback 
from sport, and occasional loss of foxes, are often the 
results of this dashing method of riding to hounds, every 
sportsman must acknowledge ; as an old writer on 
hunting has observed, " The emulation of leading, in 
dogs and their masters, has been the ruin of many a good 
cry." One circumstance, however, has greatly tended 
to perfect the system of riding well up, and this is the 
improved condition of hunters. *f~ Of Mr. Meynell's 
time, two celebrated chaces are recorded in print : one 
of an hour and twenty minutes without a check ; and 
* Among the foremost of these were, the present Earl of Jersey, then 
Lord Villiers; the late Lord Forester, then Mr. Cecil Forester; Lord 
Delamere, then Mr. Cholmondeley ; the Honourable George Germaine ; 
Earl Sefton ; Lord Huntingfield, then the Honourable Joshua Vanneck ; 
the late Lords Charles Somerset, Maynard, and Craven'; Lord Lyuedoch, 
then Colonel Graham ; the late Lords Foley and Wenlock (then Sir 
Robert Lawley) ; Honourables Robert Grosvenor, Berkeley Craven, and 
Martin Hawke ; Sir John Shelley, Sir Henry Peyton, and the late Sir 
Stephen Glynn ; General Tarleton ; Messrs. Loraine Smith, Childe, 
Charles Meynell, Harvey Aston, Lowth, Musters, Lambton, Bennet, 
Hawkes, Lockley, Thomas Aysheton Smith, Lindow, Jacob Wardell, cum 
multiz aliis. 
t The advantages of the new system of preparing the hunter for the 
field have been so clearly demonstrated by the author of these papers, in 
his Letters on the Condition of Hunters, Riding to Hounds, &c., that the 
old .one, of turning him to grass in the summer, and destroying that 
condition which it had taken months to procure, is nearly, if not totally, 
exploded, in the studs of all the hard riders of the present day 
