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for one month, their food consisting of oatmeal, 

 milk, and boiled sheep's trotters. On the 30th of 

 September the drag was drawn over the distance 

 previously agreed on, and the four Hounds were 

 laid on the scent : Mr. Barry's Bluecap came in 

 first ; Wanton, very close to Bluecap, second ; 

 Mr. Meynell's Richmond was beaten by upwards 

 of a hundred yards, and his second, a bitch, never 

 ran in at all : the course was covered in eight 

 minutes and a few seconds. Threescore horses 

 started with the Hounds. 



Copper, Mr. Barry's Huntsman, was the first 

 up, but the mare he rode was completely blind at 

 the finish. There were only twelve horses up out 

 of the sixty ; Will Crane, who was mounted upon 

 Rib, a King's Plate horse, only finished twelfth. 

 The odds, before starting, were seven to four in 

 favour of Mr. Meynell, whose Hounds it was said 

 were fed, during the time of training, entirely 

 with legs of mutton. This epoch-making affair is 

 immortalized by Sartorius in pictures belonging 

 to the present Lord Barrymore, who also has, at 

 Marbury Hall, a portrait of Bluecap by an unknown 

 artist, which perhaps may not do justice to the 

 subject. Two structural points, however, are 

 interesting, being symptoms of speed : the forearm 

 is placed under the very foremost part of the 

 shoulder, and the hocks are well let down. 



And so the modern Foxhound was evolved from 



