twenty-two miles in exactly two hours and twenty minutes. Out of 

 a very large field, only five rode it from find to finish, including the 

 huntsman on Merryman and Billy Barry, the whip, on Magpie. Un- 

 fortunately, Lord Waterford did not see this great run, as he was away 

 at Liverpool at the time, seeing his horse Ace of Hearts run in the 

 Grand National. 



Among the many good horses which carried him while he hunted from 

 Curraghmore, perhaps the following were his favourites : — Sir Nick 

 (called after his great friend. Rev. Nicholas Herbert), Killarney, The Celt, 

 Conrad, Hackfall, Cardinal Puff, The Doctor, Welcome, The Rock, also 

 Blueskin and Lord George, on whom he rode several steeplechases as 

 well as hunts. 



He turned out in the field difi'erently from men of the present 

 day. He never wore top boots or white breeches during the two seasons 

 I hunted with him. His dress was a black velvet cap, red coat buttoned 

 up to his chin, showing a blue silk necktie, brown cords, and black jack- 

 boots. I never saw him carry any whip other than the ordinary racing 

 kind. His servants were, however, smartly turned out, and, as I said 

 before, always splendidly mounted. 



With few exceptions, the general rig-out of the men who hunted with 

 him was by no means smart. Our boots and breeches were not of 

 orthodox cut, but we followed our Master's fashion as regards whips, 

 and never used the crop and lash ; we also wore velvet caps. Most of 

 the field were well mounted, and could hold their own with any other 

 Hunt they went with ; nor could any of the many English visitors 

 often go before some of the Waterford men, in either a fast spin or 

 through a long run. 



In the autumn of 1848 there came to Waterford the 85th Regiment 

 of Light Infantry. This was truly a sporting regiment, and had in 

 it some sixteen officers who hunted regularly with Lord Waterford's 

 and the Kilkenny packs. Among them they had nearly forty 

 hunters. Many of these officers were first-rate men to hounds, 

 notably Colonel Brook-Taylor, Lieutenant Bond, Lieutenant Thomp- 

 son, and Major Blackburn (brother of the English Judge). 



None, however, went better than did their brother officer, the present 

 Captain Edward Peel, R.M. Inasmuch as he occupied a prominent 

 position in the history of Curraghmore at the time I am writing of, 

 was a very intimate friend of Lord Waterford, and is now one of the 

 few living representatives of that companionship, I shall devote a 

 short space to this tine sportsman. He is son of General Peel, who 

 won with Orlando the memorable Derby of 1844. He joined 

 the 85th Regiment when young — in 1845 — and served in it till the 

 Crimean War, when he was appointed D.A.Q.M. General in the 

 Turkish contingent at Kertch during the war, and was afterwards 

 Consul at Oran and Port Mahon, and then R.M. for thirty years in 

 different parts of Ireland. Inheriting the love of sport from his 

 celebrated father, he soon made his name as a rider to hounds, 



