i6o THE QUORN HUNT 



at its close Mr. Holyoake Goodricke resigned the 

 hounds. 



During Mr. Holyoake Goodricke's last season the 

 hounds had a good run from Lowesby Hall, where lived 

 the Marquis of Waterford and some friends. A 

 Russian fox, said to have been one of those imported 

 by Mr. White, was found in John o' Gaunt covert, and 

 he gave a capital run of thirty-nine minutes without a 

 check ; and by great exaggeration the distance is said to 

 have been ten miles, when the " Czar," as the Russian 

 fox was called, squatted in a furrow, and the whole pack 

 passed over him ; but he was killed just afterwards. 

 Lord Waterford went from start to finish as hard as he 

 could pelt, and killed his first horse Lancet at the end 

 of a racing twenty minutes. For the first time in his life 

 he refused a fence. Lord Waterford jumped off to see 

 what was the matter, and in a few minutes the horse 

 was in extremis. "It was not the value of the horse that 

 I cared about," said the marquis, "but the loss of time." 

 A critic of the time wrote that it was a pity there was 

 not a little more discretion mixed up with his lordship's 

 valour. 



Sir Holyoake Goodricke, as he then was, died at the 

 close of 1865, and one of his biographers — one who did 

 not always observe the precept De mortuis, &c. — wrote : 

 " It must have been many years since Sir Francis 

 Goodricke put on a red coat ; and ' blazer ' as he was 

 for five-and-twenty minutes, there never was one atom 

 of real sporting blood in him. How a cool hand like Sir 

 Harry could ever have made him his heir, even in a huff, 

 and expected him to carry on the Ouorn hounds, passes 

 all belief. The most unfortunate part of the business 

 was, that the gentleman to whom the estates were left 

 by the first will was informed after Sir Harry's death 

 that he was the heir, and then a second will turned up. 

 For a calculating head, nothing beat Mr. Holyoake in 



