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during- that year he was remarkably lucky. He won 

 the Westmeath Urn on Brunette, beating Tidings and 

 Sam Slick. 



On the 20th March, at the Kildare Hunt meeting, 

 he won the Ponsonby Bowl on Major Woodhouse's 

 Kilfane, beating Paddy Whack and four others. A 

 few days afterwards, he won the Kilrue Cup on 

 Brunette, defeating Mr. Simpson's Albert, Mr. Alley's 

 Desperate, Captain Burnett's Mameluke, Captain 

 Watt's Eber, Captain Dyson's Gondorf, and Mr. Matt 

 Dunne's Fanny Elssler. During the race, a heavy 

 snow shower fell, and almost blinded the riders ; near 

 home Fanny Elssler ran against a post and fell. Mr. 

 Dunne was riding her ; and he often assured me that 

 he would have beaten Brunette but for the mishap. 

 Fanny Elssler won the Kilrue Cup in 1848 and 1850. 

 In the month of April, Mr. M'Donogh, on Brunette, 

 won the Foxhunter's Stakes, at the Ormond and 

 King's County meeting; a few days afterwards a 

 valuable stake at Limerick, beating Mathew (winner 

 of the Grand National), Fencer, and Victor. In June, 

 the Hurdle race (2nd class) at the Curragh, on Mr. 

 Preston's Great Wonder, Lord Waterford's Firefly, 

 and Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway, being his only oppo- 

 nents. At the Curragh October Meeting following, he 

 *' landed" the Corinthian on Fireaway. A week after 

 that, when piloting Brunette for the New Melton Stakes 

 atCahir,he got a severe fall andBlueskin won. Notwith- 

 standing some injuries sustained, a few hours after the 

 accident Mr. M'Donogh won a sweepstakes on Mr. Pres- 

 ton's Mountain Flare. During the following year he 

 did wonders for Mr. Preston. He won for him the 

 Hunt race at the Kilrue National Steeplechases, on 



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