26 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1745 to 



The horses who ran for the king's plates 

 must have been very different from the 

 wretched cat-legged creatures we now too 

 frequently see start, as they carried twelve 

 stone, and the winner was the best of three 

 four-mile heats. 



By advertisements in the county paper it 

 appears that hairdressers used to come down 

 from London, and stay during the race week 

 at the Black Swan Hotel, Winchester. 

 Mr. Terry of Mr. Stephen Terry of Dummer, 

 Dummer. Qne Q £ ^ q^^ sportsmen living in 



Hants, was at Eton in 1791, and a contempo- 

 rary of Mr. Berkeley Craven, Mr. Thomas Asshe- 

 ton Smith, who was in the same form, Mr. John 

 Musters, afterwards master of the Pytchley, 

 and Beau Brummel. He began hunting on a 

 pony about 1785, and says he can remember 

 at least twenty different packs hunting in Free- 

 folk Wood. Mr. Terry, in his early life, hunted 

 a good deal in Dorsetshire, and there married 

 a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Seymer. He 

 saw a good deal of Mr. Peter Beckford, who 

 lived at Steepleton Lodge, near Blandford ; at 

 his death his celebrated rabbit-beagles were 

 divided between Lord Rivers, who lived at 

 Houghton, and Mr. Terry. 



17S3. Mr. Terry, as stated above, re- 



Lord staweii. members Lord Stawell hunting the 



