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CHAPTER II. 



Training and conditioning of hunters — Mannering of hunters — 

 Riding too fast at fences — Jumping from a stand — Mr. Mor- 

 rogh's horses — Rushing horses at fences — Training horses to 

 jump — Qualifications necessary for a horse-trainer — Favourite 

 terrier belonging to author — Intelligence of horses — Affection 

 of horses for their masters — Clever mare belonging to author ^ — 

 Riding through a run without reins — ' A risky performance ' — 

 Mr. Kennedy's mare — Why horses come to grief — Mr. Linde's 

 horse Too Good — Cleverness of Irish horses — Riding for 

 sale inimical to sport — Horse-dealing masters of hounds — - 

 Hunting to ride and riding to hunt — Trials of temper to an 

 M.F.H. — Monster meet of Meath hounds in Kildare — Mr. 

 Pailly's performance on Shylock — The light division — Sport 

 spoilers — Orderly fields — Sporting farmers — Lifting hounds — 

 Low-hounds for cold-scenting countries — Casting forward — 

 Casting back — Cunning of vixen — Greyhound foxes — Size 

 and voracity of greyhound foxes — A hoary scoundrel— Grey- 

 hound foxes imported into Ireland — Extraordinary run with 

 Meath with greyhound fox — Advantages and peculiarities of 

 greyhound foxes — Preservation of greyhound foxes — Greyhound 

 foxes not to be overpressed at first- — Mr. S. Reynell on grey- 

 hound foxes — Anecdotes of foxes by Donald McTavish — An 

 old fable- — The tame fox and the Irish hen-wife. 



It is not sufficient for a man who aspires to be a 

 hunting man to be only a horseman, and no more than 

 that. The knowledge of the best way of managing 

 and conditioning his horses is very necessary. A 

 horse, to do his best for his master, must be fit to 

 go, i.e., in the very highest possible condition into which 

 he can be brought. For my own part, I advocate the 

 old fashion of giving a horse three doses of medicine 



