HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Another of those long Masterships from which the 

 Hunt has benefited at frequent periods in its history 

 followed when Major R. St Leger Moore took the 

 hounds in May of that year; and for thirteen seasons 

 Kildare fields enjoyed sport under a Kildare man, 

 which, notwithstanding the troublous times over 

 which it extended, will bear comparison with that 

 of any epoch in our annals. I find the close of this 

 long and prosperous Mastership in 1887 marked by 

 the presentation to the Master by the Ladies of 

 Kildare of a massive piece of plate which bears the 

 name of the ninety donors and a couple of happily 

 expressed verses composed by one of them: 



The ladies who love and who follow the chase. 

 From Dublin to Enfield, from Newbridge to 



Naas, 

 Have joined in this tribute to sport in Kildare 

 Wishing joy to our Master and luck to his heir. 



May the horn of our hunt as successive years run 

 Be borne by the sire and then by the son; 

 May Richard the Second in chivalry nursed 

 Be as courteous a Master as Richard the First. 



While regretting the end of Major St Leger 

 Moore's Mastership, Kildare men welcomed the 

 reappearance as Master of a member of a family 

 long famous in Kildare sport when Colonel H., now 



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