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Regiment (13th Light Dragoons), Mr. T. White, on 

 Croom-a-boo, after a great race. He won many races, 

 but never rode a better one than on the late Colonel 

 Richard Bernard's Beware, for the Kildare Hunt Cup 

 in 1854. Seven started, and it was one of the most 

 severely contested races ever run over that course. 

 Beware, The Dodger, The Squire (winner of the 

 Corinthian Cup in 1853), and Captain Warburton's 

 Disowned were all backed freely. Diamond, Disowned, 

 Knowsley, and Beware kept close company throughout, 

 and Diamond won by a short head. Beware defeated 

 Diamond by a neck for second place, Knowsley 

 finished a similar distance behind her, fourth. Half an 

 hour afterwards '' Denny" Wynne won the Farmer's 

 Race, on Haphazard, and then nineteen were weighed 

 out for the Corinthian Cup. So much money was 

 put on Torrent that he started at six to four ; and he 

 pulled his backers through very easily. Next day. 

 Captain Hutchinson won the Welters on Torrent A 

 few weeks afterwards, he rode the same horse for the 

 Kilrue Cup, and he fell over a bank near home. 

 Jumpaway, a four-year-old, by Blackfoot, the property 

 of Mr. M. Dunne of Punchestown, ridden by Mr. Tom 

 Abbott, won. The gentleman taken with the starter's 

 flag in hand Is Colonel Campbell of " the Bays," on 

 Free Trade. He rode many winners; won several races 

 for "the" Marquis ofWaterford, and could finish as 

 well as any man. A little In the background is Mr. 

 William Kennedy, ex-Master of the Kildare Fox- 

 hounds. For his character as a M. F. H. and rider to 

 hounds I refer you to the chapter on the ** Klldares." 

 Mr. Kennedy is the second son of the late Sir John 

 Kennedy, and was born In 1821. When very young 



