HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



ConoUy, who ran third, said they might as well 

 have been mounted on donkeys beside Clinker. 

 Mr Kirkpatrick bought this fine horse at one of 

 Lord Waterford's sales at Curraghmore. In the 

 same year, 1847, CUnker, with a jockey up, ran 

 fourth in the Grand National in a field of twenty- 

 eight. His owner, who said he was badly ridden and 

 should have done better, refused ^£500 for him 

 at Liverpool, a high price in those days. He staked 

 him later out hunting with the Kildares. 



Another horse famous in Kildare annals. Lord 

 Drogheda's Westmeath, first ran in the Hunt Cup 

 in 1849, and won. He was ridden by Mr Henry 

 Moore, who subsequently won it twice in suc- 

 cession on the same horse, and it became Lord 

 Drogheda's property. 



Many present members of the Hunt will re- 

 member Mr Alexr Kirkpatrick, who rode regu- 

 larly with the hounds until his death in 189 1, at the 

 age of seventy-eight. He never destroyed a receipt 

 in his life, and one of these showed that he bought 

 his first red coat while an undergraduate at Trinity 

 Hall, Cambridge, where he won a scholarship and 

 took an honour degree in mathematics. His tutor 

 said he would have been much better placed in the 

 examinations if he had spent less time in riding and 

 hunting. 



It was not till 1850 that the advantages of the 

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