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Mr. Wandesforde has had further
fine sport in his Queen's Co.
country, and has no cause to be
dissatisfied with his season.
The Kilkenny record still con-
tinues to be a very excellent one.
In last month's ** Van " a run
from Tory Hill and a kill at
Smithstown was declared to be
the best of this season with these
hounds, but on December i6th
they were again at Tory Hill,
and after sixty- three minutes,
rolled their fox over in the open
about two-and-a-half miles from
Smithstown. The last twenty
minutes of this were run at quite 1
top pace, and this time there was ;
noiFog on top of Tory, so every*
one got "away," and all were]
pleased. On the i8th thesft!
hounds had a fast and most ex«
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dting gallop of just an hour from
Wlutcrolt's, though it was by no
meaas straight ; it was an after-
noon run, and Order Avana hounds had to be
stopped at Kilfera at dusk. On
the 26th they had one hour ten
minutes from Knockroe to Sut-
clifies, Castle Blunden, and on to
Golden Hill, where the fox was
marked to ground, bolted and
killed; a fine hunt with catchy
scent, but pace very fast at times.
Thej were at Kilcoran on the
29th, and Mr. Poe had a leash of
foxes for them, but the one they
stuck to was a bad one. From
the fine outlying gorse of Knock-
reigh they then had a couple of
gallops, one of twenty and the
other of thirty-five minutes' dura-
tion : the latter very good — a ring
back to the gorse, where he was
left On January 2nd, after a
poor morning's sport with the
wretched foxes of Clara, the «* Old
Kilkennies" found in the fa-
vourite Bishopslough, and ran
like fire without checking for
nineteen minutes to Maddoxtown
railway bridge towards Clifden
Bottoms, but turning to the left,
crossed the Waterford railway on
to the river Nore, making a four-
mile point in twenty - eight
minutes, and then ran him back
to Bishopslough, after a rare good
run of sixty-three minutes.
Lord Huntingdon and Mr.
Biddulph have both had good
sport, and his lordship's pack, the
Ormond, distinguished themselves
by having two great runs on
Uecember 20th and 22nd. On
the first occasion they found in
Kylenoe Wood, and after hunting
Um for three hours and covering
Iburteen miles of country, hounds
earthed their fox not far from
Portumna. On the 22nd they
kad two runs, one from Coro-
iJasty, when a fresh fox got up
[liefore hounds and took them on
|.to an open earth beyond Shin-
rone, and then a fox from
Knockshegona was killed at
Lochisle. Another great run.
The King's County Hounds
did well on December 19th, when
they had a really good forty
minutes from Moyvoughly to
ground near Basken ; but they did
still better on the 23rd from Tore,
when they had a fine run of an
hour at least, and killed their fox
at Raheenspill in great style.
The United Hounds took the
field again on December 15th,
after their terrible visitation of
distemper, which destroyed no less
than seventeen-and-a-half couples
of hounds. Though, of course, out
of condition at first, they have
shown some brilliant sport since
their convalescence. On the 15th
they ran for an hour from Bally-
le^an to Hermitage, Buy Avana about ten
miles as hounds ran over a fine
grass line, and had a very fast
burst from Mr. Cashman's new
gorse to Regans in the evening.
The 26th was another good day
with these hounds, for they had a
good ring from Corrin, a gallop
with an outlier into Dundillerick,
and a clinking gallop of some
ten or eleven miles over some of
the best of the country from
Boltons in the evening. On the
29th they ran over a perfect
country from Regans to Killuntin
— an eight-mile point; and after
hanging a bit there they went on
to Bride's Brake, where he just
saved his brush in the main earth
— about the run of the season in
CO. Cork.
''Baily's Hunting Dipeotory."
— By an unfortunate mistake in
the lists of ** Winners at the Fox-
hound Show at Peterborough,"
certain hounds have been entered
as belonging to the Woodland
Pytchley Hunt. This is inaccu-
rate. The hounds so described
were bred by Mr. Austin Mac-
kenzie, till lately Master of the
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Woodland Pytchley, were his own
property, and should, in the winner
lists of the shows held in 1896,
1897 2ind 1898, have been described
as ** Mr. Mackenzie's," under
whose name they appear in the
Stud Book. At the Show of
1899 Mr. W. M. Wroughton won
second prize for Two Couples of
Entered Bitches with hounds he
had purchased from Mr. Mac-
kenzie ; and these — Daylight,
Delta, Wildfire and Trusty —
should have been described as
M Mr. Wroughton's."
Yeomanry Hospital. — The
members and followers of the
Puckeridge Hunt have at once
responded to Lady Warwick's
appeal in the Field recently,
and have already forwarded
cheques for ;fioo, which sum
is enough to equip two beds in
the Yeomanry Hospital at the
Front.
Polo.— The Earl of Aya.— The
death of Lord Ava will cause
universal regret. No one was
more widely known, and he had
played polo almost wherever the
game has found its way. In
India, when in the 17th Lancers,
he played in the then famous
team of the regiment. Since then,
at Raneiagh, at Hurlingham, and
at Rugby, he has been a frequent
player. Nowhere will he be re-
gretted more than at the Raneiagh
Club, where for a time he acted as