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WILL DALE. 



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any expectatiou of finding, and that he should then get 

 on his second horse. But, as luck would have it, they 

 did find. Dale never got his second horse, as hounds went 

 away at a tremendous pace, and his second horseman, 

 George Borrill, could never get to him ; they ran right 

 into the Burton country, finishing at Glentworth. It was 

 9.30 when hounds reached kennels that night, and Dale 

 calculated that Beatrice had carried him over seventy 

 miles that day. She is now the property of Mr. W. B. 

 Swallow, of Wootton Lawn, and has made a name for 

 herself in the Show ring as a hunter brood mare, besides 

 breeding some capital foals. In 1900 she was probably 

 the best weight-carrying brood mare in England. There 

 is some credit in an animal like this, that has been ham- 

 mered about and carried a heavy-weight huntsman for 

 several seasons, winning in a Show ring, and the past 

 record of hunter brood mares should certainly be taken 

 into consideration in awarding the prizes. One sees so 

 many four and five-year-old brood mares in the Show 

 ring nowadays, animals that would certainly not have 

 been there at their age unless they had proved worthless 

 as hunters, and so their good looks are made to earn their 

 living, the freshness of their limbs frequently giving them 

 a victory over far more deserving animals. Surely a mare 

 with an honourable past should take precedence over a 

 good-looking fraud. 



