DAVID CHRISTY 



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hunting- mare, " Maybelle " is a red chestnut with four white 

 legs: she won many prizes before she was five years old, 

 beating at the Bath and West of England Show at St. Albans 

 in 1896 a horse that won first prize, in a class of seventy, 

 at the Dublin Show. She is an excellent hunter. 



Mr Christy may fairly lay claim to having hunted as long as 

 if not longer than, any present follower of the Essex Hounds. 



David Christy, Senr., on " Brian Boru " 



Commencing with Conyers fifty-nine years ago, when he was 

 sixteen years of age, he has hunted ever since. Mr. Christy 

 says that he never rode a better horse than " Brian Boru," the 

 subject of this photograph. Purchased in Ireland as a two- 

 year-old in 1888, he carried his new owner's son Theodore 

 the following season : when a four-year-old Mr. Christy took 

 him in hand to be carried safely and well for many a subsequent 

 season. 



