12 Seventy Years a Master, 



*' The gallop to which he alludes as the finest he ever 

 saw was with a deer. Let me give an account of it in 

 Mr. Race's own words : 



" ' The best run I have ever seen in my long life 

 occurred on October 19th, 1847, when we found a white 

 hart at Mr. Whitbread's place at Sou thill, and run him 

 close up to Leighton Buzzard, which is a good seventeen 

 miles as the crow flies, and the horses were so beaten we 

 were compelled to stop the hounds. The deer was only 

 just before us, and was taken by some men who were 

 cleaning out a pond a little more than half a mile from 

 the place where we stopped them. Time, one hour and 

 forty minutes.' 



" Time and point show conclusively that this must 

 have been a remarkable hunt. Contrary to the views of 

 many people, Mr. Race has always held the opinion that 

 it does harriers no harm to run a deer. 



*' ' His own experience,' it was once stated, *has 

 convinced him that they may hunt deer for a fortnight 

 on end, and then turn to hare without detriment to their 

 steadiness. He has seen his own pack do this too 

 frequently to have any doubts on the subject.' 



" This venerable sportsman celebrates the anniversary 

 of his birth on the twenty-third of the present month 

 (November, 1910), and is entitled to the congratulations 

 of the whole hunting world." 



'' Valesman's " graceful appreciation will 

 be echoed in the heart of many another 



