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this hare would run for ever, when suddenly up she got in view, and two 

 hours from the start they ran into her, at the farm building near Sewalds 

 Hall; Hurrell remarking that in the many years he had served Mr. Vigne 

 as huntsman he could recall no better run. He, with Mr. Cunliffe Smith, 

 Mr. George Brown, Mr. Winder and Mr. Gingell, were about the only riders 

 who reached the finish. 



The two hunters represented in this picture were the pro- 

 perty of Colonel Alan Gardner, V.C, and were both ridden 

 by him when he had the Rectory Stables at Dalby in poor 

 "Chicken" Hartopp's time, and subsequently in Essex from 

 1880 to 1890. " Dynamite," purchased at Alelton from Mrs. 



Dynamite and Waterford 



Sloane Stanley, was a chestnut gelding, very nearly, if not 

 quite, thorough-bred. He was a very powerful, fast horse, and 

 although over 16.2, wonderfully active on his legs, changing 

 them like a pony on a bank, and rarely fell. 



"Waterford," a bay gelding just over 16 hands, came out 

 of the Vale of White Horse country, in which he had won a 

 point-to-point. He was a wonderful timber-jumper. If he 

 could not clear the rails, he always got his hind legs on the 

 top one, and never came down. 

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