336 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1845 to 



The h. h. c. The Hambledon Hunt races took 

 place on Soberton Down on May 7th. 



The Hunt Club Stakes of 5 sovs. each for horses regularly hunted in 

 Hants, or with Colonel Wyndham's hounds. 



Mr. Tredcroft's ch. h. Freemason (Mr. Hunt) 1 



Mr. Day's St. Patrick 2 



Mr. Dorrien's Wild Grave 3 



Mr. Shrimpton's Dulcimer 4 



The Stewards' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 15 added. 



Mr. Nightingale's b. m. Amelia (Owner.) 1 



Mr. Loe's b. g. Billy 2 



Mr. Deacon's b. m. Ada 3 



™ W1?TI " At this time the X. F. H. had a 



The N.F.H., 



from series of good sport on February 



Paultons, -i-» 



1857. 10th ; they met at Paultons, and 



found in Mr. Stanley's plantations; they 

 hunted steadily up to Crows-nest, and then 

 raced their fox for forty minutes by the Tele- 

 graph to Ey worth Wood by the Eoyal Oak, 

 and Fritham to Hockerill and Pig-pit, where 

 they ran to ground. Dinnicomb, it was uni- 

 versally remarked, hunted the hounds very 

 well."— From BelVs Life. 



" The last of these celebrated an- 

 meet at nual gatherings was held at Ted- 

 worth on October 13th, and to 

 greet the veteran squire, who was now eighty- 

 two years old, were — the Marquis and Mar- 

 chioness of Winchester, the Marquis of Ayles- 

 bury, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir Edmund 



