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always rode well-bred horses, was and is a thorough 

 sportsman in every sense of the word. He was 

 always well turned out, and a good man between 

 the flags long ago when we had the races in Tramore. 

 Many a time I saw him cheered a winner to the scales. 

 Glascott of Alderton, and Lambert of Carnagh, were 

 constant attendants from Wexford ; no men went 

 straighter or better than they. 



Dick and Tom Morris, Joe Rivers, Ned Courtenay, 

 Ned Clibborn, Clemt. Sadlier, John Waring, Charley 

 Gregory, Doctor O'Ryan, Billy Johnson, were also 

 good men and true ; there were many others, but time 

 and space do not admit of any reference to them. 



The men who go well now with the Curraghmores 

 are : Capt. Slacke (no better man lu the iwrld to ride a 

 hunt, whether mounted on a well-trained or a green 

 one, it is all alike to him), Lords Charles, Marcus, and 

 William Beresford, when at home, Tom Lalor, Willy 

 and Bob Paul, Willy Anderson, the young Jones of Mul- 

 linabro', the young Courtenays, Spencer, Joe Strang- 

 man, Harry Sargent, Raymond and Arnold de la 

 Poer, Perry of Woodroofe, Sir Richard Power, Ralph 

 Bunbury, Hugh Baker, the Mansfields of Lanscape, 

 Brent Neville, who always has a good-looking horse. 

 Jimmy Dobbyn of Tipperary, Louis Strangman, and 

 his kinsmen Johnny and Sam, Fred Power of Bellvue, 

 John Fanning, John Bell of Clonmel, and others. The 

 present Lord Huntingdon, when living at Whitechurch, 

 used to bring down large contingents from the West, 

 the Humbles, Odell, Maxwell, Dick Roberts, and 

 others, and they all went well with us. We have 

 also many ladies, married and unmarried, who 

 ride remarkably well to hounds; but I shall not 



