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This run was considered good enough to quaHfy 

 for a place in the July number of Baily^s Magazine, 

 where the line given is substantially the same as 

 above as far as Blackator. After that point, it is 

 stated that the pack turned southward, raced along 

 the valley of the West Ockment, and is believed to 

 have killed on Amicombe Hill. In that case, the 

 writer estimated the run at twenty-four miles. The 

 distance, as hounds ran, from Heathercombe Brake 

 to Cranmere Pool, a mile or so beyond the spot on 

 Whitehorse Hill where the field began to get into 

 difficulties, he computed at fourteen miles, and he 

 gives the time to this point as one hour and twenty 

 minutes. There were, of course, no fences to hinder 

 hounds, which never once checked, and the pace was 

 severe. Those who went to the extreme limit were 

 Mr. Westlake, Mr. Hole, Mr. W. C. Clack, junior, of 

 Moretonhampstead, Mr. Barclay of Torquay, Mr. 

 Alec Monro of Ingsdon and two or three farmers, 

 one of whom, of the name of Norrington, had gone 

 particularly well. The writer adds that the hounds 

 did not return until the following day, and that the 

 fur in their teeth and other strong indications went 

 far to prove that they had been successful. 



Mr. Westlake continued to give unqualified satis- 

 faction to the country until, at the end of the season 

 1874-5, failing health compelled him to retire. He 

 returned to Exbourne, his old home in North Devon, 

 where he died some years later. But before leaving 

 South Devon he was entertained at a dinner given at 

 Newton Abbot in October, 1875, by the members of 

 the hunt in his honour at which he was presented on 

 their behalf by Sir John Duntze with a massive and 

 handsome silver cup. 



This cup is embossed on one side with a representa- 



