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a mark to ground in Gunby Warren after slower 

 hunting, the full time being twenty-five minutes. 

 Amongst those who had the best of it were Lord 

 Lonsdale, Lord Drumlanrig, the veteran Colonel the 

 Hon. H. H. Forester, who will always be remembered 

 as " The Lad," Captain Blair, Captain Lee Barber, 

 and the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke. Gillard remarks, 

 " I never saw so many dirty coats from falls at 

 the finish, my own included." 



Warburton might have written his verse for the 

 occasion — 



" If my life were at stake on the wager, 

 I know not which brother I'd back ; 

 The parson, the squire, or the major, 

 The purple, the pink, or the black." 



In Gillard's last season, 1895-96, two red-letter 

 days resulted after visits to Coston covert, the first 

 being on December 18, when hounds fairly flew 

 from Buckminster Park through Coston covert by 

 Wymondham, checking on nearing Woodwell Head, 

 with slower hunting past Teigh to Edmondthorpe. 

 The time from Buckminster Park to Woodwell Head 

 was twenty-three minutes, with another seventeen 

 to the check at Edmondthorpe. Nearest to hounds, 

 though never within half a field of them, was Lord 

 Charles Bentinck, Mr. de Winton, Mr. Edgar 

 Lubbock, Mr. V. Hemery, Mr. H. T. Barclay, the 

 Rev. J. P. Seabrooke, Mr. Will Gale, Gillard, Harry 

 Maiden, and Sam Gillson. On this occasion Gillard 

 was well carried by a bay horse named The Miner, 

 a bold, big jumper, and at the end of the season, 

 when the hunt horses were sold at the Leicester 

 Repository, he went for twelve guineas. 



A repetition of the gallop came off on January i, 

 1906, and once again the chosen few sat down to 

 ride as though the winning-post was in view ; those 



