10 Seventy Years a Master. 



trap whenever he can do so. He ceases to be Master 

 only as far as paying for their keep goes. Though in 

 very good health, he thought it better to hand the 

 hounds over to the country during his lifetime, but as 

 long as he is alive we shall keep the hounds at his 

 place, as he loves them and spends all his time looking 

 after them.' 



" What a charming picture — the old man, shortly 

 entering upon his ninety-third year, as fond as ever of 

 the pack which has given him so many happy days. 

 Just fancy — eighty-odd years with the hounds, and keen 

 to the last ! It is difficult to realise that we still have 

 with us a sportsman who saw Mr. C. Barnett, the 

 famous Master of the Cambridgeshire, find his first cub 

 in the first year of his long Mastership, namely 1829. 

 Yet Mr. Race is that man, and he still loves to recall 

 the many good runs he saw with Mr. Barnett and his 

 hounds. As w^ell as having seen him find his first fox, 

 he saw him kill his last in his final season, thirty-eight 

 years later. 



"He is the son of Mr. John Race, of Fairfield, 

 Biggleswade, well known in his day as ' Thistle Whipper ' 

 in the Sporting Magazine, and a nephew of Mr. S. 

 Wells, one of the founders of ' Wells, Hogg & Lindsell,' 

 the bankers, and also the founder of the Biggleswade 

 Harriers. Mr. George Race was born at Stratton 

 Lodge in November, 1818, was educated at the Rev. 

 John Fell's School at Huntingdon, and has been Master 



