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prominent place among Irish sportsmen, and by their influence gave 

 Lord Drogheda effective support in making Punchestown what it is- 

 I jot down the names just as they occur to me, beginning with those 

 who were masters of our foxhounds, according to their countries, and it 

 will be seen our patrons represented all parts of Ireland :— Captain Rye 

 of the Muskerry, Lord Shannon of the United, Lord Doneraile of the 

 Duhallow, Sir David Roche of the Limerick, John Going of the Tip- 

 perary, Henry Briscoe of the Curraghmore, Sir Nugent Humble of his 

 own pack, Henry Meredith of the Kilkenny, David Beatty of the 

 Wexford, Robert Watson of the Carlow and Island, Captain Cosby of 

 the Queen's County, Burton Persse of the Galway, Baron de Robeck of the 

 Kildares, Captain Coote of the West Meath, Sam Reynell of the Meath, 

 Captain Filgate of the Louth ; with the masters of our two packs of 

 staghounds, those fine sportsmen Leonard Morrogh of the Wards and 

 Captain Balfe of the Roscommon. Then we had the Marquises of 

 Conyngham, Clanricarde, and Downshire, Lords Howth and St. Lav^- 

 rence, Colonel Bernard of Kinnitty, his brother Captain Richard, one of 

 our then few good Corinthian jockeys, Richard Stackpoole of Eden Vale, 

 John Harold Barry of Ballyvonare, Captain Studdert of Cahermoyer, 

 Thomas Naghten of Thomastown, Sir Richard de Burgho of Castle- 

 con nell, William Quin of Loughloher, Captain Pack-Beresford of Fenagh, 

 Judge Gough of Rathronan, John Preston of Bellinter, Captain Mervyn 

 Archdale of Castle Archdale, John White of Nantenan, Michael Betagh 

 of Clonsilla, James Cassidy of Monasterevan, Colonel Frank Forster, 

 John Hubert Moore, Thomas Harper of Naptown, P. M. V. Saurin of 

 Duleek, Michael Dunne of Ballymanus, Sir John Power of Kilfane, and 

 his son Richard, Colonel Garden, who for many years was master of the 

 Queen's County Hounds, Colonel John White, of the 7th Hussars, a 

 notable all-round sportsman, and a comrade-in-arms of the Duke of 

 Beaufort and the late Lord Dunsandle, with whom he was great 

 friends ; Colonel the Hon. Charles White of the Co. Clare, Captain 

 Archibald Peel, who lived near Ashbourne, and now lives in Sir Watkin 

 Wynn's country ; George Bryan of Jenkinstown, the Hon. H. Fitz- 

 william, who rode Redman when he flew the double ; Colonel Ainsiie^ 

 who commanded the Royals, the owner of Juryman, Wild Fox, etc.; 

 Colonel Harford, who rode many a winner at Punchestown ; William 

 Magrane of Dublin, J. D'Arcy Hoey of Newry, who bred Comeaway ; 

 James Gartlan of Carrickmacross, Robert Long of May field, Lord 

 James Butler, who won the famous eighteen stone steeplechase at 

 Whitefields nearly forty years ago ; Joseph Tuite of Sonna, Lord Bective, 

 now Marquis of Headfort, Sir Walter Nugent of Clonave, etc. 



In Kildare were found Lords Naas, Cioncurry, Clonmell, and Milltown, 

 the Baron de Robeck of Gowran Grange, Thomas Conolly of Castle- 

 town, Richard Moore of Killashee, John Wakefield, the " best man " 

 then with the Kildares, Sir Edward Kennedy, J. P. Tynte and his 

 son Fortescue, Edmund Mansfield, the right-hand of the Kildare Hunt 

 Major Barton, Cristopher Rynd, David Mahony, who habitually smoked 



