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Re: Kington Racecourse
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 27 May 20 19:11 BST (UK) »
Hereford Times, 13 Mar 1841
A SPLENDID RUN WITH THE HEREFORDSHIRE FOX HOUNDS

".... enabling the varmint** to gain Hergest Park, from thence he crossed the Kington Race Course on Hergest Ridge - pressed hard - ran to the Yel wood near Kington Church  ..."

** still trying to work out if the varmint got away!!

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 27 May 20 19:19 BST (UK) »
No - he didn't get away. The chase was stopped ("whipping off"?) when a fresh fox was identified. But it seems 3 of the foxhounds had gone "awol" and next day it was discovered they had got the varmint a quarter of a mile from where the hunt had whipped off.
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