HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Mr Robert Kennedy has a vivid recollection of 

 a certain meet at Newtown Mill, then a crack fix- 

 ture with the Kildare, when his father, seeing him 

 attended by a groom, suggested that the boy was 

 afraid to ride by himself, a remark very likely to 

 remain long in the memory of its victim. Furness 

 was then always drawn by taking the hounds 

 through the wooden door at the top of the hill. As 

 Mr Kennedy passed through this with the pack, he 

 exchanged greetings with Drummond, the Dublin 

 bootmaker, whose wares were so popular among 

 the gentry that he died worth a large fortune, which 

 he very piously devoted to the foundation in 

 Dublin of the existing Drummond Institute for the 

 Orphans of Soldiers. " A fine morning, Drum- 

 mond," remarked Mr Kennedy. " It is, sir," re- 

 plied Drummond, " and a grand sight, for sixty- 

 seven pair o' my boots has already passed through 

 that door." 



Mr Robert Kennedy is of opinion that the best 

 riders during his father's time were Mr Henry 

 Carroll, of Ballinure, and Mr Edward Beauman of 

 Furness. Mr Carroll was a brilliant horseman, 

 raced at his fences, but rarely got to the end. Mr 

 Beauman, on the contrary, took his fences slowly, 

 but was always there. The two best welter weights 

 of the same period were the late Lord Cloncurry 

 and Mr Albemarle Cator, whose property was 

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