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she might, north or south, he was always there to 

 look on. He was very intimate with Mr. Lawrence. 

 Butterfly, by Lopez, was another of his breeding. Mr. 

 Randell's dogs bore a great part in the Sundorne Cup 

 struggles. Will Nightingale loved to tell of a run up 

 between his Rival and Mr. J ebb's No Hurry. It was 

 run off on the Drawbridge Field and The Springs, 

 each of them about forty or fifty acres, and No Hurry 

 killed and won the Cup. Riot and Avalanche was a 

 capital give-and-take course under the Ring Bank, 

 and the black bitch, who made two wrenches and a 

 splendid kill, had just the best of it. Rhapsody had 

 some rare racing stretches in a great course with Ajax, 

 from the " Race Course." 



The Challenge Cup (which was in reality a tea and 

 coffee service of some 60/. value), to be run off between 

 the winners of the Haughmond and the Pimley stakes, 

 produced some very fine contests. One was in the 

 Autumn of 1856, when "The Squire" was on his 

 death-bed. He loved to hear of every course to the 

 last, and each evening Mr. Warwick, who was first 

 slipper and then judge, went to his bedside and told 

 him of them, point by point. On this last occasion 

 the recital had more than its wonted interest. Revel- 

 ler won the decider for the Pimley Stakes against a 

 fawn dog, Judge, which was hardly in the course, and 

 then Hopbine and Riot ran their last course for the 

 Haughmond Stakes on the lawns before the castle. 

 The hare was driven from the coppice, and every inch 

 of the run was on grass. Hopbine, slightly favoured 

 by the slip, led Riot to the hare, and was quite as 

 clever in all the after work. The Challenge Cup was 

 not run off till the next morning, and then only half- 

 a-dozen met to see it at eight A.M. It was fixed for 

 that hour, that Mr. Warwick might go to judge at 

 Chartley, and hence, although the rain came down in 

 torrents, they were obliged to go to work. A hare 

 was found in Gregory's Coppice, and the pair had a 



