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fast ; among them were : Sir Charles Rus- 

 sell, Messrs. George Vansittart, M.P., Wil- 

 liam and Pery Standish, John Leveson Gower, 

 Conroy, J. Simonds, St. John, Faulkner, 

 Martin, Major Hanmer, Captains Rowley and 

 Wilder, &c, and a good sprinkling of yeomen, 

 who appeared out of good feeling to Mr. Garth 

 and the old Bramshill Hunt. 



The following appeared in BeWs 1852 - 

 Life, May 23rd, 1852 : A member wager.*" 

 of one of the leading Clubs in London, and 

 a master of fox-hounds, offered to back a 

 young lady, from two to five thousand pounds, 

 to ride against any other lady in England as 

 follows: viz. to ride from London to Bir- 

 mingham, using two horses ; to ride four 

 miles over the Newmarket course ; to ride a 

 four-mile steeple-chase over Hertfordshire, or 

 to hunt the Hursley fox-hounds, in October 

 next, and to kill a fox with them. In the 

 paper of the following week the challenge 

 was accepted by a Miss Mary Ashburton, 

 Ladies' Horsebreaker, of Thayer- street, Man- 

 chester-square, if any gentleman would pro- 

 vide the horses. The young lady bess Key- 

 so backed to do these feats was that 

 fine horsewoman Miss Reynolds, then hunting 

 in Hants. I need not say that the wager was 



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