On Saturday the number of spectators was as large as usual to sce the start and finish of the fourth meet of the Paper Hunt Club. The participators in the sport showed in good numbers also, and we think it shows the increasing favour with which this sport is regarded that the fields this year have been Inrger all through than those of the first four hunts of last season, The numbers will fall off towards the end of the season, for after all the China pony is but flesh and blood, and is not made of cost steel. So many of them sive way under these severe weekly runs, that many men who start the season with one or two. ponies, find themselves towards the end of it with nothing to ride, and their expensive paper hunters only fit for Maloo traps. Some of the places which the hunt had to craw] and stragxlo thronzh on Saturday were well calculated to put a lot of ponies hors de combat. The foxes are apt to lose sight of this; they go at whatever pace they choose and take the jumps in whatever way they please, The meet was in the field a little past Oliver's Bunualow but on the other side of the road. In the absence of the master, Mr, Ibert started the Hunt, which went off at right angles from the Bubbling Well Road and then turned up to the right, orer Brownie's jump and down towards Mr. Burkill's jump, which was skirted by a tortuous route to the Sikaway village and on to the Handicap line; the ran in being by way of the tidal creek: beyond Fahwah, which was forded. down the Fahwah line on the Sikaway Road into the country again, to the Snish over the tidal creek.
Mr. Ibert was first up at the finish, but Penegrine stopped to consider; Messrs, Nickels and Ogle were immediately behind, but Oriole swerved and Skiddaw propped Mr. Wintle came up on Astrologer, jum ed the creek and won. Mr. Ogle then got Skiddaw over, and Mr. Fabris came in second on a big skewbald the namoof which we know not, winning the heavy weight prize. The country was in splendid order for going; the wind was rather high and blew the paper about, but paper was hardly. wanted by those who had been with the Drag Hunt on Thursday.
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