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rate the fox was in a few minutes found in a hedgerow on Mr. 

 Stone's farm, and went away in view of the hounds, which, for 

 about half-an-hour, ran very fast indeed. The fox at last obtained 

 a start, and for a couple of hours the pace fortunately moderated 

 considerably. The little pack worked wonderfully well up to 

 Thrussington, where they hunted the fox in and out of a number 

 of yards and gardens, coming up to him in one of the latter. A 

 second time he went away in view of the hounds, but then 

 they gave him no rest, killing him after a three hours' hunt near 

 Brooksby Earths. Report says that the only three horsemen 

 up at the finish were Mr. Stone, Goodall, who was hunting the 

 hounds, and Jack Raven, who was perhaps out for a holiday. 



To Lord Sefton has been ascribed the invention of 

 second horses in the field, an arrangement which in later 

 times has been the cause of much grumbling, and, as in 

 the Quorn and some other hunts, of special regulations 

 being promulgated by the respective masters. Lord 

 Sefton may perhaps have made some alteration in the 

 use of them, but men rode more than one horse a day 

 nearly three centuries before he became an M.F.H. 

 Henry VIII., a welter weight, worthy to rank with Lord 

 Sefton himself, once got to the bottom of eight horses in 

 a single day, while in the account of a run with the 

 Charlton (afterwards the Goodwood) hounds in 1738, 

 contributed by Mr. T. J. Bennett to vol. xv. of the 

 " Sussex Archaeological Collection," we read that 



Lord Harcourt blew his first horse, and that his second 

 subsequently felt the effects of long legs and a sudden steep . . 

 while in Goodwood Park, the Duke of Richmond chose to send 

 three lame horses back to Charlton, and took Saucy Face and 

 Sir William that were luckily at Goodwood. 



There is nothing new under the sun, they say. Lord 

 Sefton's method of employing a second horse, however, 

 was in direct opposition to the course adopted by Lord 

 Lonsdale, who ordained that all second horsemen, to 



