PHIUP REINAGLE, R.A. II7 



one of his contributions to the exhibition of 18 17 

 was a woodland view on the same estate. The first 

 volume of Colonel Thornton's Travels in France, in 

 1804, has for frontispiece a portrait of the author as 

 a falconer carrying a hawk hooded on his wrist. 



The portrait, an oval, is surrounded with a design 

 emblematic of field sports, and, like the portrait of 

 the Colonel in the Sporting Magazine, has for 

 pendant a small picture of the race between Mrs. 

 Thornton and Mr. Flint. This plate was engraved 

 by Mackenzie. The race was the outcome of a 

 ride in Thornville Park, on an occasion when Colonel 

 and Mrs. Thornton were joined by the lady's 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Flint. The latter was some- 

 what chagrined by the prowess of the lady and 

 her horse in a racing spurt or two in which they 

 indulged : and the sporting instinct running high 

 on both sides, a match for ^500 a side was 

 made between Mrs. Thornton and the gentleman, 

 the race to be run on the last day of the York 

 August Meeting, 1804. The match duly came 

 off, and resulted in the defeat of Mrs. Thornton, 

 who, however, maintained that Mr. Flint's success 

 was a matter of accident and due to no inferiority 

 of her horse or her jockeyship. A writer in the 

 Sporting Magazine for September adds to his 

 description of the event the following postscript ; — 

 " I forgot to add that Mr. Reinagle, the celebrated 



