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Warde, who, as his picture shows, was no ordinary 

 welter weight. On one occasion Blue Ruin was 

 lent to Mr. Assheton Smith, who rode him through 

 an extraordinary run which lasted nearly an hour ; 

 not a man of the field could catch them, and the 

 horse still had plenty left in him when hounds 

 pulled down their fo.x. Mr. Assheton Smith offered 

 Mr. Warde a large sum for Blue Ruin, but the 

 veteran refused to part with him at any price. He 

 was a marvellous stayer, and is said to have done 

 sixt}-two miles in a curricle without having the 

 bit removed from his mouth. This horse reached 

 his thirtieth year in Mr. Warde's possession, and 

 at that age was still able to do occasional journeys 

 in harness to London. "The Father of Fo.x- 

 hunting." a portrait of Mr. Warde. painted by 

 W. Barraud, engraved in large size and printed 

 in colours, was published in 1835 by Rudolph 

 Ackermann. 



These works added yet further to the artist's 

 reputation, and his services were sought by many 

 of the leading sportsmen of the day, for whom, 

 often in collaboration with his brother, he painted 

 numerous pictures. Henr)- Barraud had achieved 

 success as a landscape and portrait painter, and 

 the brothers did so much work tosrether that it is 

 impossible to treat the career of each entirely by 

 itself One of their more noteworthy joint works 



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