The meet for the seventh hunt of the geason was at Trefancha, and despite the cold weather there was, at the time appointed, afield of over thirty ponies mu: tered—a very good show, when it is remembered there are so many sportsmen gone up country for the holidays. Spectators, 100, were more numerous than has been the case latterly at the throw-off.
Shortly after 3.30, the tally-ho was given, and, cantering gently over the intervening flat, the field reached the first ditch nearly in aduster. With the exception of the several customary - temporary objections and one or two persistent refusals, the ponies got across in good style, the' only mishap be to a flying representative of the mercantile marine, who, keeping his tiller-ropesatrifle taut when weathering the obstacle, was obliged tuletgothe painter" to prevent jamming, but suddenly cap-seemed fora moment to be in a fair way of being towed along by the foot. ity a dexterous mover however, be! managed to east off ji time be left on his back ing Foam" soon disappearing in the distance. e paper, which was laid by the Stewards, led from the start straiziit for Tesstield rond, then up what is called the Jessfield line, and from thence down the Tausin line of country, round by the old zend to a point near Me, Major's bungalow. Some outsiders who did not follow the hunt the whole distance, came in and reported that at one point the Chinese had shifted the paper to a spot where the ground was full of stakes of from a foot to eighteen inches high, and amongst which it was impossible for the ponies to jump noth © kind, 80 far' us we heard, was mentioned by the huntsman, it is probable that the paper so seen had been blown by the wind from a former conrse.—The ground on Saturday was also some of the jumps, istence covered was a mi nearly an hour from start to fini judge their distance, of newly-ploughed land, leading up to it, not mend matters, but rather tended to make the finish more than usually severe, A large body of spectators were assembled, and patiently waited, or walking about, the arrival of the horsemen, Patience and pluck ware at length rewarded by a sight of the lenders, a half-mile or more distant, but jerable number of grave-mounds wounded, many minutes elapsed ight ran to the flags was For some distance before renching this, it was seen that Mr. Symons was pounding along on the newly-named Escula pius, with a strong lead; followed by Mr. Morris on Southdown, "Mx, Murray on Trelawney, Mr. R. Job on Jandom, Mr. Howie (who was riding hatless) on Steam Whistle, and Mr. A. J. How on Oriflamme, the rest nearly or quite dis-taneed. In the order n"med, the leading squad approached the ditch above deseribed, which Bsclapius charged in fine style, but jumping short, bumped opposite bank with his chest heavily, and of course fell. Before Mr. Symons could pick him up, Mr. Morris put Southdown over, and 0 won the lightweight prize. The others cleared the ditch us above-placed, and Mr. A. J. How being in first of the heavies, "took the prize for that detachment. "The run was described as being plucky throughout, though severely testing the endurance of both riders and quadrupeds,
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