MR O'CONNOR HENCHY, 1846-1847 



Sweepstakes of i sov. each, with 10 sovs. added. 

 Same course as the Bowl, heats. 

 Mr Kennedy's bl. g. Sweeper, by Count 



Diebitsch i 



Mr Barrington's Valentine 2 



The meeting of 1844 is interesting for a cup 

 given by the officers of the First Royal Dragoons. 



KiLDARE Hunt Steeplechase 



Wednesday J March 20, 1844 



Twenty sovs. given by the officers of the ist 

 Royal Dragoons; catch weight. 



Mr M. Dunne's gr.g. Isaac (a boy) i 



Mr Kennedy's b. m. She's-all-my-Fancy 2 



Details of the sport of these early meetings are 

 scanty and difficult to obtain, but I have been so 

 fortunate as to receive from Mr W. T. Kirkpatrick 

 of Donacomper, Celbridge, some notes of the per- 

 formances as amateur steeplechase rider of his 

 father, the late Mr Alexander R. Kirkpatrick, in the 

 early days of the Kildare Hunt Cup, which are 

 altogether worthy of record, and recall very happily 

 the sport of the middle years of the last century. 



In 1845 Mr Kirkpatrick won the Kildare Hunt 

 Cup on Pilgrim, a horse which was blind of an eye, 

 in a field of three, Mr Burgh's Grisette being 

 second and his Swindler third. In the same year, 



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