Lord Willoughby de Broke 



meeting Lord Willoughby rode Mr. Gilliatt's Gazelle, and was 

 beaten by Mr. Jack Goodwin on Mr. Davis' Despair. 



At the Tarporley Hunt Meeting in the same year, he had 

 four mounts, winning the Tarporley Hunt Stakes by ten 

 lengths on Mr. H. R. Corbett's Conductor, and the Gentle- 

 man's Welter Steeplechase on Captain W. G. Middleton's 

 Muleteer. He also rode Captain Middleton's Musketeer in 

 the Foxhunters' Open Steeplechase, but was beaten, and was 

 second in the Gentleman's Open Red-coat Steeplechase on Mr. 

 Smith- Barry's Barmston, being beaten by Mr. Baldwin on Mr. 

 Knowles' Mainstay. He again rode Gamut in the Borough 

 Members' Plate Steeplechase at the same meeting in a field 

 of ten runners, and won by half a length, Gamut starting 

 favourite. 



On taking the hounds in 1876, we cannot find that he 

 accepted any more mounts over a country. His final appear- 

 ance on a steeplechase course was at Stratford-upon-Avon in 

 1897, when he rode his own horse Clasp, finishing behind Mr. 

 Freake, who won the Hunt Cup on his black mare Bilberry. 

 On the other hand. Lord Willoughby accepted several mounts 

 from Mr. J. Hanbury, Ben Wyvis and Cabin Boy being among 

 those whom he steered to victory in several Hunter Flat 

 Races. 



Although the race-course ran it very close, the hunting- 

 field and the kennel were always the ruling passions with Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke. When he became Master of the 

 Warwickshire Hounds in 1875, he found a very moderate 

 pack in the kennels. For over fifty years — ever since the 

 days of Mr. Corbett and Lord Middleton— the pack had 

 changed Masters a great deal too often for any particular 

 type or strain to have been thoroughly stamped in the blood. 



Lord Willoughby's father had the longest term of office, 



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