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up by Captain Delmege in 1879. He was helped 

 by my father and Tiger Reilly, but the sub- 

 scription to it, £1, was considered expensive, and 

 one well-known hunting man declared that all 

 the hunters in the country would be spoilt or 

 broken down ! 



I cannot recall it as I was a tiny mite. I have 

 the account. The first race was won by Mr. de 

 Ros Rose's Charlie, ridden by Captain Delmege ; 

 the second by Captain Mark Maunsell's Senior, 

 ridden by Colonel Reilly. 



Names which again recall the leisurely coach- 

 ing days, each of these owners drove one. The 

 swing and clank of the bars, the clink clonk of 

 the four horses' hoofs, the country slipping 

 gently by. 



In 1891, after my marriage, I had a few days 

 hunting in Cork on a dreadful little chestnut 

 thoroughbred which could not or would not jump 

 a fence. I Ughted on some of their worst country 

 there at first, glen and mountain, but as most of 

 my time was spent on the road, it did not matter. 



Then Mr. Donovan the horse dealer, lent me a 

 black mare which he had bought with a great 

 character and which ran away with me even on 

 close country for three miles until she turned 

 turtle at a high bank. 



Mr. Phelan picked me up and just as I was 

 getting to my feet another horse appeared on top 

 of the bank. He must have hit me, I think, if 



