Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes (Volume 8) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... BAILY'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE OK SPORTS AND PASTIMES. MR. TAILBY. To the Fox-hunters, not only of' the Shires, ' but of the Provinces, the Portrait of Mr. Tailby must be acceptable, as few Masters of Hounds have lately occupied a more prominent position than the gentleman who hunts the next most fashionable country to the Quorn. Mr. Tailby, the fidelity of whose likeness will be at once recognised, was born in 1825 at Humberstone in Leicestershire, and is the eldest son of William Tailby, Esquire, of that place. He was educated at the Grammar School of Repton, from whence he was transplanted to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree. Reared, as it were, among fox-hunters, and his earliest recollections being associated with anecdotes of those Nimrods whose names will ever live in the annals of the English Chase, it is only natural he should have imbibed the same tastes as his ancestors, and to have endeavoured to have emulated their example. At the University, if he eschewed academical honours, there were other distinctions at which he successfully arrived, and he quickly attained a reputation for going straight with hounds that proved him the Leicestershire man 'to the manner born.' Bodily endurance was one of his great characteristics, and barring, perhaps, Lord Wemys, Captain White, and the Old Squire, there are few sportsmen alive who have gone through more in the saddle. Even now, his feat of riding from Cambridge to Epsom and back on two hacks in one day to see the Derby run for is talked of with admiration by those who recollect it. For such was his knowledge of pace and fine handling, that neither of the animals he rode was in the slightest degree distressed with the length of its journey. Being, as it may be styled, out of his time with t...