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out a check or turn, and again took the open 

 at the extreme end near Lower Clatforcl, after 

 traversing quite four miles through the wood, 

 then over the river, leaving Red Rice on the 

 left, and ran into him dead beaten in the 

 open below Abbots Ann, in the Tedworth coun- 

 try, after one hour and twenty-five minutes, 

 with every hound up, but not so the field. It 

 was quite six miles from Wherwell to where 

 they killed, and they did not enter a covert 

 all the way. Strange to say, they passed the 

 Tedworth who had met at Red Rice, and they 

 said they had had no scent. This is perhaps 

 one of the most remarkable runs on record in 

 this country, and never was done before, and 

 it is an extraordinary performance of both 

 fox and hounds. Besides Mr. Whieldon, those 

 who saw the run from end to end were 

 Captain Harvey and his brother, Mr. Henry 

 Harvey, Messrs. George Brooks, G. Rawlins, 

 and B. Bovill. 



On March 4th, 1862, Mr. Whieldon was 

 presented with a testimonial of a silver horn 

 at a public dinner in the Town Hall, Basing- 

 stoke, when there was a numerous muster of 

 hunting men from all the surrounding Hunts, 

 a fact the more gratifying to him as such 



