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vice patroness, Countess of Cholmondeley ; assistant 

 vice patroness, Mrs. Coke, and one honorary member, 

 the Earl of Montraith. Following Swaffham in 1780 

 the Ashdown Park Meeting was established by Lord 

 Craven, Lord Sefton, and Lord Ashbrook, and this 

 exists at the present time, and is by far the oldest 

 established coursing meeting we possess. The 

 Altcar Club, established in 1825, and the Ridgway 

 Club, in 1828, still amongst the leading meetings 

 of the year, are well supported, and appear to have 

 a long and useful existence in front of them. 

 Swaffham was resuscitated on more than one 

 •occasion, and in 1892, and ever since, meetings have 

 been held there. Other old fixtures that may be 

 mentioned were Malton, in 1781 ; Louth, 1806; 

 Newmarket, 1805; Midlothian, 181 1; Ardrossan, 

 established a few years later, and, although there 

 is no specific date given, Mr. W. F. Lamonby, 

 the keeper of the "Stud Book" believes that the 

 Biggar meeting was in existence prior to the present 

 •century, but like many other of the early gatherings, 

 it has long been discontinued. 



Mention has already been made of Lord Orford, 

 a nobleman of great sporting proclivities, and of 

 unusual eccentricities. If reliance can be placed 

 upon the ''Sportsman's Cabinet," published in 1803, 

 and I believe there is nothing to the contrary, it 



