38 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1745 to 



1793. Mr. Stares of Botley at this time 



had a pack of harriers. 



Hunt races, Owing to there being no files of 

 Apni, 1794, t | ie Hampshire Chronicle between 

 1784 and 1794, and the H. H. records com- 

 mencing only in 1795, I cannot discover when 

 the races were first held. In the Chronicle of 

 April 7th, 1794, 1 find "the annual H. H. Cup 

 was run for over Worthy Down, and was won 

 by Mr. Graeme's Bruiser, got by Boxer. There 

 was a remarkable concourse of the best com- 

 pany on the down, and Mr. Hayne's ball in 

 the evening, at St. John's House, was genteelly 

 attended." From this time the Hunt races were 

 held nearly annually, but the reports of them 

 are generally given in the above brief style. 



Farmers' I n September is the following ad- 



Feast. Sept. . 1 ° 



22, 1704. vertisement : 



FARMERS' FEAST. 



THE members of the H. H. are requested to take notice the Farmers' 

 annual Feast will be held on Wednesday the 24th, at the Sv>*an 

 Inn, Alresford, when they hope for the pleasure of their friends' com- 

 pany as usual. 



In the month of November a complete pack 

 of fox-hounds, then hunting in the neighbour- 



hood of Andover, were advertised in the Hants 

 Chronicle to be sold ; the}' were the property 

 of Lord Southampton and Colonel Beaver, 

 alluded to at page 18. 



