HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



eve of a race meeting, allowed the horses to run on 

 his undertaking, later fulfilled, to restore them to 

 their keeping after the race. 



I have mentioned his ill-luck. He was constantly 

 killing good horses, disasters due in part, no doubt, 

 to his methods of training and riding, but Fate was 

 surely against him when, after winning the ^(^300 

 race at Punchestown, he was disqualified because 

 his horse, " The Sinner," had been in the forfeit 

 list for 30s. before he had owned him. He killed 

 Hortland Chief at a jumping competition at Naas, 

 a handsome chestnut, upon which he once won a 

 race when he was so weak with influenza that the 

 doctor had forbidden him even to attend the meet- 

 ing lest it might kill him. 



Many stories of his sayings and doings in the 

 hunting field are still current in Kildare. He was 

 at a meet once in an unusually impressive costume, 

 but left after hounds had been running for an hour 

 or so. About one o'clock they took their fox on to a 

 road just as a funeral was passing. On the box of 

 the first mourning coach was Hanway with a long 

 black overcoat over his breeches and boots, and 

 wearing a silk hat and hatband. A well-known mem- 

 ber of the Hunt said, " What are you doing there, 

 Hanway, I thought you were with us." "I'm doing 

 my duty to an old friend," was the reply, " as I hope 

 to do my duty to all my friends, including you, sir." 

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