HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



auction, immediately after the race, and the sur- 

 plus (if any above the selling price) to go to the 

 Fund. Horses entering to be sold for £2^ allowed 

 10 lb.; if for ,£20, 20 lb.; and if for j(^io, 30 lb. The 

 second horse received two sovs. out of the stakes, 

 the third saved his stake. Two miles. The winner 

 of a Steeple Race before the ist of April, 1850, 

 carried 14 lb. extra. 

 Mr Magennis's b. g. Blue Pill, by Pioneer, 



aged, 8 St. 10 lb. (Cusack) i 



Mr Hall's bl. g. The Sadler, aged, 10 st. 4 lb. 2 



Mr Lynch 's br. h. Doctor, six years, 11 st. 3 



14 ran. 



It is generally admitted that the Punchestown 

 meetings owed much of their success to the Corin- 

 thian Cup first run for in 1853. That cup was 

 established by Mr " Billy " Hutchinson, a son of 

 Lord Donoughmore. It was first won by Mr Peter 

 Wilkins, who was veterinary surgeon in the nth 

 Hussars, and, with his beautiful wife, was well 

 known in Dublin. Later Billy Hutchinson won the 

 Corinthian Cup on Torrent. He rarely hunted in 

 Kildare, but kept the garrison staghounds, and had 

 Dicky Bernard as first whip. Hutchinson was the 

 immortal Sam Reynell's right hand in the making 

 of the Meath country. 



I give the official record of the first race for the 

 Corinthian Cup. 

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