MR O'CONNOR HENCHY, 1846-1847 



Mouslin Kitty and neither of them afterwards 

 showed in the race. The same day Mr Kirkpatrick 

 on CUnker won a sweepstakes of ten sovereigns 

 each with twenty-five pounds added for horses bona 

 fide the property of officers on full pay serving in 

 Ireland, or members of the Hibernian, United Ser- 

 vice, Kildare Street and Sackville Street Clubs. 

 Riders at 12 st. must also be officers on full pay or 

 members of those clubs. A newspaper report states 

 that " Clinker made the running all through and 

 won in a canter. Seven started. The line of country 

 selected lay between Dunboyne and the Moor of 

 Meath. The principal portion was over grass land 

 and included nineteen fences of a fair sporting 

 character with an artificial water cut of about 12 

 feet wide." 



Mr Alexander Kirkpatrick used to say that if he 

 had objected to the course at Dunboyne and had run 

 Clinker for the Cup, he would almost certainly have 

 won it, in which case he would have won the Cup 

 three years in succession, and it would have been 

 his property. But at the time he thought more of 

 winning the Garrison Sweepstakes, which was the 

 better race, and so entered his best horse for it. 



In any case he won the Hunt Cup easily in the 

 following year on Clinker from a field of four, 

 Mr C. Warburton being second, and Mr Tom 

 Conolly and Mr Costelloe making up the field. Mr 



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