290 THE SOUTH DEVON HUNT 



Their successes at the last show of the Shire 

 Horse Society, held at the Agricultural Hall, Isling- 

 ton, in the month of February, 1916, are typical of 

 what they have achieved with different lines else- 

 where. After taking a seventh, an eighth and a fifth 

 prize with three different exhibits, they were awarded 

 second prize for Fascination in the class for fillies 

 foaled in 1913, and that animal was also reserved 

 in the competition in the Championship Class for 

 the Cup for the best filly. At the same show their 

 Lorna Doone carried off the first prize for mares 

 over 16.2, five years old and upwards, the Champion- 

 ship Cup for the best mare and the Society's Gold 

 Challenge Cup valued at fifty guineas and Champion 

 Cup valued at twenty-five guineas for the best filly 

 or mare. 



The one fear entertained by the hunt committee 

 was lest, with affairs of such magnitude already 

 occupying their time, the Messrs. Whitley might feel 

 unable to cope with the management of a pack hunt- 

 ing so large a country as the South Devon. But it is 

 generally true that the busy man is the man who finds 

 most time, not indeed for leisure, but for fitting in 

 more work. The solution probably is that his life is 

 well ordered and his time well parcelled out, none of it 

 being wasted. The Messrs. Whitley made no secret 

 of the fact that it would be difficult for them to 

 devote to the sport and its ancillary duties the 

 personal attention usually expected of a master, and 

 they accordingly stipulated that more of the work 

 should be undertaken by the committee. Further- 

 more, they organized a system of local sub-committees 

 to deal on the spot with matters arising in different 

 parts of the hunt. The idea is excellent and promises 

 to be a complete success, the only drawback, due to 



