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And at tlie same place, jumps Smith of Loraine : 

 He's off! — No ! he's not !— he hangs by the mane !" 



In the Billesdon Coplow run, Feb. 24th, 1800, he is thus 

 described by Mr, Bethell Cox : — 



" Loraine and Lord Maynard were there, and can tell, 

 Who in Justice's scale hold the balance so well 

 As very good judges and justices too, 

 The state of each horse, and what each man did do : 

 But if any one thinks he is quizzed in the song, 

 And fancies his case stated legally wrong. 

 To Enderby Hall let him go and complain — 

 But he'll not mend his case, if he meets with Loraine." 



In Mr. South 's celebrated poem upon the same run, we find 

 him thus noticed: — 



"Loraine, than whom no one his game plays more safe ; 

 Who, the laat than the first prefers seeing, by half ; 

 What with nicking, and keeping a constant look out, 

 Every turn of the scent surely turned to account. 

 The wonderful pluck of his horse surprised some, 

 But he knew they were making point blank for his home ; 

 ' Short home' to be brought, we all might desire. 

 Could we manage the trick like the Enderby squire." 



The horse he rode on that day was purchased of Mr. Cave 

 Brown : he was a brilliant hunter, got by Mercury ; he was 

 sold to Mr. Fox Lane's father, at Bramham. 



In those days, as I have before said, second horses were rarely 

 to be seen. The one horse devoted to the day, was an animal 

 possessing as much blood as could be obtained with great 

 power. Large flat legs that could break a rail, and measuring 

 eight or nine inches round below the knee. The horse ridden 

 throughout the above-mentioned day, must have been of last- 

 ing powers — Mr. Loraine Smith's weiglit being upwards of four- 

 teen stone. He was a skilful master of his pencil ; and beneath 

 a painting, descriptive of the chase, appears the following f\iith- 

 ful record of this run : — 



" A view of Mr. Meynell's hounds, carrying a head with their 

 second fox, at the end of a chase from Billesdon Coplow, Leices- 

 tershire ; passed Tilton Woods, Sheffington Earths, crossing the 



