FOX AND HOUND 



Here are, epitomised, some of the great runs of 

 the last eighty years : — 



17th March 1837.— Mr. Delme RadcHffe's Wen- 

 dover Run. Found at Kensworth at half-past two, 

 ran their fox to Hampden and lost him at dusk : 

 2 hours 35 minutes: 18j miles point to point. 26 

 as hounds ran. Fox found dead in a rick yard 

 next morning. 



9th February 1849.— The Old Findon (Surrey). 

 Ran their fox 45 miles in 4 hours 50 minutes : 

 last 22 miles nearly straight : killed in Dorking 

 Glory, Surrey. 



2nd February 1866. — The Pytchley, Waterloo Run. 

 Found in Waterloo Gorse at five minutes past 

 two, ran to Blatston: 3 hours 45 minutes: whipped 

 off in the dark at 5.30. 13 couples of hounds up 

 of Hi out.i 



Zrd February 1868. — The Meynell, Radbourne 

 Run. Found in the Rough : fast but erratic run 

 to near Biggin, 3 hours 37 minutes : 36 miles : 

 fox believed to have been knocked over when 

 dead beat by a farmer. 



22nd February 1871. — Duke of Beaufort's Great- 

 wood Run. Found Gretenham Great Wood : 

 marked to the ground on Swindon side of High- 

 worth: 14 miles point to point: 28 miles as hounds 

 ran. 3 hours 30 minutes. 



^ Mr. Robert Fellowes, who rode In this run, thinks It much overrated : 

 * hounds were continually changing foxes and were never near catching one 

 of them. It was only a journey.' 



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