HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



was not killed, but the hounds were not touched, 

 and only one covert, the Downshire, entered. 

 When the fine fox left that covert close to where the 

 field stood, Roddy Miley on ' The Protestant 

 Church ' his famous horse, made a dart after him. 

 Goodall, the only time I ever heard him speak to 

 a member of the field, quietly asked Roddy if he was 

 mad; the reply was that he had lunched. 



" The Laragh run no doubt was the best run 

 on record, and three such runs as that, the one 

 from Baltiboys, and another, which as Stephen 

 Goodall once told me was the greatest of all, were 

 never known before during one Mastership lasting 

 only five years. That third run was after a fox that 

 crossed within a few yards of the hounds as they 

 stood at Tuck Mill near Baltinglass." 



I have unfortunately been unable to gather any 

 particulars of this run from Tuck Mill, except that 

 the hounds hunted him for hours and lost him in 

 the end. 



The story of such runs as these makes the 

 records of other sport commonplace, but the hunt- 

 ing in Kildare during Lord Naas's term was quite 

 good. On December i, 1859, ^ ^^^ ^^ Ardscull went 

 away fast as if for Dollardstown, turned and crossed 

 the Athy road at Bray, and ran to ground close 

 to Athy after a capital run of twenty-five minutes. 

 A week later, December 8, after drawing Rath- 

 angan blank, they found in Dunmurrey cover, and 

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