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ference to this hunt from which the reader might 

 infer I had grossly overridden my mount. But he 

 came home quite gaily and was sold fairly well at 

 auction not long afterwards, so we may assume he 

 was sound. The reference is as follows: 



"It was a first-rate run - a nine-mile point 

 in fifty-five minutes. There is unluckily no 

 record of it that goes at all into details, but 

 Mr. W. Fraser-Tytler was one of those who saw it 

 well on a four-year-old of Mr. Port's, which was 

 never any good afterwards". 



Whether the four-year-old turned out well or 

 ill I never heard, hut after the first two or 

 three fences he went well that day and only fell 

 once. But most emphatically that is not the sort 

 of hunt you want the first time you introduce a 

 young horse to hounds. 



Dick Fort, as he was so often called, was for 

 many years Master of the Meynell. His horses 

 always had the best of everything and his stable 

 management was excellent. But whether between the 

 shafts of his dog-cart on the road, or between his 

 legs as hunters, they had to 'go 1 , and I have 

 never ridden a four-year-old that was in harder 

 condition. A good and gallant sportsman, it was 

 always a joy to see him ride to hounds and a 

 pleasure to see him sit on a horse, for his seat 

 was a perfect one. He was killed in 1918 by a 

 fall over wire. 



I have often had keen young ones who had got 

 quite pleasant and steady with hounds, and have 

 then dropped in for a really quick thing with them 

 when they were set going in earnest. The next 

 day they hunted they would be as wild as a hawk. 

 It is a good plan, if you want to give a very 

 keen one manners, not to loose him off two hunt- 

 ing days in succession. It requires a good deal 

 of self-restraint to carry it out, but if, after 

 a real good 'go', you take things very easily the 

 next day you have him with hounds, his manners will 

 benefit. He will recognise that hunting is not a 



