74 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1S00 to 



it; liis horse was too cool, mine too hot. 

 After all, I helped him to a good excuse for 

 losing the fox. The gentlemen sporters did 

 not ride cruel fierce in that country. I must 

 Lord Lisle, except Lord Lisle, who was capital ; 

 and Goodman, a green-coated farmer : he 

 fenced away in such desperate style that he 

 made money by it ; he sold an old gelding by 

 Pilot, a slow little prad, but tough, for 170/., 

 for which two years before he gave but 177. 

 Mr. John That he told me. Mr. Moody* (I 

 Moodj> think, of Southampton) did not ride 

 the lanes either ; he went along straight. John 

 Major and Jack King were fearless enough; 

 and Will, the other whip, was a good creep- 

 ing fencer. The rest, I thought, rather loved 

 the strolling shady lane and humorsome con- 

 verse of their comrades, better than the cross- 

 country travelling and musical converse of the 

 hounds. With Mr. Powlett's was Mr. Probyn ; 

 he went along bravely. Reeves, tlio, huntsman, 

 and Sawyer, the whipper, were not too well 

 mounted." 



1812. The Cup was won by Mr. Yille- 



h. h. races. ^ Q ^ ^ nY f 0Y ^ a t three heats ; beat- 



* Mr. John Sadleir Moody lived at 8, Hanover-bnildings, South- 

 ampton.' In the year 1817 he kept a pack of harriers, -with which he 

 occasionally hunted stag. He was for many years Secretary of the 

 Hambledon Hunt. 



