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in Canada, and known to have been successfully exhibited 

 at the New York Horse Shows, where she has more than 

 once achieved a record of six feet in the jumping arena. 

 Murphy was riding the big Canadian mare, Kannuck ; 

 Hewett, stud-groom of the Meadowbrook Hunt, was 

 mounted on a powerful, apparently rather underbred, 

 horse, whose reputation is second to none as a sure 

 conveyance, which means that he and his rider (the latter 

 long since handicapped by broken thighs and various 

 minor fractures incidental to the practice of tutoring 

 young horses upon Long Island) were easily equal to all 

 contingencies of the day. Whenever it came to attacking 

 an awkward leap out of a road, the first to turn towards it 

 were usually Hewett and his big horse, followed instan- 

 taneously by his little son, " a 75-lb. boy," and a wonderful 

 dun pony, who, if the timber happened to be too big for 

 him, would go on and off like a greyhound. 



Of the field there were Mr Charles Carroll, on his 

 black Irish horse, Honest John, that has carried him some 

 seasons and has also won many prizes. Mr. Carroll (who, 

 by-the-bye, was duly clad in the pink of the chase) is a 

 keen fox-hunter, having graduated in the fields of the Old 

 Country and of Pau. He had now, with Mr Herbert 

 aforesaid, travelled all night from the Genesee Valley, 

 where good natural fox-hunting prevails, and where the 

 farmers turn their attention largely to the breeding of 

 hunters. Beside him w^ere Mr. H. S. Page, in the cool, 

 white clothing of summer ; Mr. Victor Morowitz on a 

 particularly neat bay mare, that 1 had already seen at the 

 kennels, and that I am told has won many jumping prizes 

 at the New York Riding Club ; Mr. J. L. Kernochan on a 

 hog-maned chestnut that has already visited Leicestershire 

 in Mr. Mortimer's stud, and Mrs. Kernochan, superbly 

 mounted on Retribution, said to be the best half-bred 

 steeplechase mare in the country. Mr. Rawlings Cottonet 

 was on Red Baron, who bears the character of being very 

 fast and good ; Mr. Van Renseler Kennedy on the old- 

 fashioned and reliable Wisdom ; and Mr. George Day on 

 the Laverack mare (horse and man alike powerful and 

 capable). Mr. Willard Roby was alone riding a horse 



