4G SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1745 to 



A run with the H. H. is riven in 

 Reported the Hants Chronicle. It is here copied 

 Hants verbatim, principally to show the 



Chronicle. , -, « .. .-% , -, 



style 01 reporting at that period : 

 " The Gentlemen of the H. H. had an excessive 

 hard run on Monday last. They found at 

 Burntwood. The huntsman's horse died at 

 Popham Lane." 



"At the Spring Meeting on Worth v 



1796. 



Races on ' Down, the cup was won by Mr. Kerr's 

 Down h} from Messenger at three heats, and on the 

 $** Hants same day a silver cup was given by 

 the D'entlemen of the Cottage Hunt 

 at Twyford." Although I have made every 

 inquiry, I have utterly failed to obtain any in- 

 formation about this Cottage Hunt. 

 h. h. races, The annual cup given to be run 

 Oct. 22. .c QY on Tichborne Down by farmers' 



horses was won by Mr. Bradley's of Bighton 

 bay horse Prince Moody, beating Mr. Rivers's 

 black horse Young Marquis, and Farmer 

 Houohton's mare. The dinner at Alresford 

 afterwards was fully attended by the members 

 and the farmers. The Gazette, containing the 

 news of Sir J. B. Warren's victory and capture 

 of Wolf Tone, arrived at the time, and caused 

 many patriotic toasts to be drunk. Theobald 

 Wolf Tone, who was taken on board the Hoche, 



