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Cowton Plantations. Most unfortunately the 

 hounds divided at the railway, one half running 

 up the line and the other half crossing to the 

 west, which I followed in order to get the hounds 

 off the line, and we lost at Cowton Village. We 

 afterwards discovered that the other half of 

 the hounds with the run fox went straight up 

 the railway to the earths near Cowton Station, 

 where they ran their fox to ground. In their 

 chase up the line they unluckily met a train, and 

 one of them, Dainty, was run over and killed on 

 the spot. 



'' This run from the drain to the point where 

 the hounds divided, was exactly one hour and 

 five minutes, and was undoubtedly first class 

 from beginning to end. The pace was tremendous 

 all the way, and only four of the field kept them 

 in view, namely, the Master on his brown horse. 

 Colonel Scurfield on Sambo, young Mr. Fowle of 

 Northallerton on a chestnut horse, and myself 

 on Lady Bennett, and never during the whole 

 chase were we able to see more than seventy 

 or one hundred yards ahead of us on account of 

 the fog." 



From 1865 to 1869 the Hurworth Master was 

 Major Elwon (the owner of Plaudit) ; then 

 again the same Mr. Cookson (a breeder of some 

 famous racehorses. Mincemeat, Kettledrum, 

 Dundee, and many others). In 1873 he retired 

 in favour of Lord Castlereagh (the present 



