Horseman and Hunter
He was a passionate horseman and maintained, and was master of, his own pack of foxhounds (1822–1839) known as the "Thorndon Hunt", from which the Essex Union Hunt subsequently developed. He also constructed a racecourse at Oxney Green, near Writtle. It is said that following the Battle of Waterloo, Petre acquired Marengo, the gray Arabian horse of Napoleon I of France
Keen on hunting he also created, at Thorndon Park, a mixed herd of up to 2,000 Fallow Deers and Red Deers, which subsequently formed the basis not only of the present Brentwood, Essex herd but also the entire deer population of New Zealand.
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