HISTOEY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



in the open.^ Captain Hay describes this as a 

 "brilliant and first-rate run, ultra pace all the 

 way," 2 while the ' Sporting Magazine ' ^ bears that 

 "considering the extreme severity of this extra- 

 ordinary run," Bintoul was well with his hounds, 

 that Messrs Finlay and Bowman were also fairly 

 placed, and that one other horse of Mr Eamsay's 

 stud enabled his rider to see the finish. The 

 second of these runs, which, as to distance and 

 time, is somewhat similar to the first, came just 

 about a year later, on the 20th of April 1844. 

 Newholm, near Dunsyre, on the borders of the 

 counties of Lanark and Peebles, was the place of 

 meeting, and hounds found directly on being 

 thrown into covert, the fox breaking all but in 

 view. Unfortunately, no details as to the line 

 taken are forthcoming, but it would seem that 

 owing to the severity of the pace, the fox was 

 forced from one point after another, and that 

 several parishes were run through ; while the dis- 

 tance as the crow flies is stated to have been 

 twelve miles at least, and as hounds ran, sixteen. 

 "The pace was tremendous, the country undeni- 

 able, the fences large, and this gallant pack, 

 headed by old Brusher, ran into their fox from 

 scent to view, in the open, after going without a 

 check— excepting a little cold -hunting over the 



1 'Sporting Magazine,' June 1843. 



2 Inscription on silver snuft'-box given by Captain Hay to Rintoiil, 

 in the possession of Mrs Morton, Joppa. 



3 ' Sporting Magazine,' June 1843. 



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