For the third time this season Hongkew was again the country chosen by the foxes, on this occasion Measrs. Perrott and Maitland; the start was from the lower end of the Rifle Range, the finish near the Paper Mill.
For some time the track lay in a. zigzag line near the old railway track till a fair distance inland had been reached, when the run home commenced.
The paper was well laid, the jumps being such as the country afforded, over courses intended for what was not in them-—water.
In consequence ponies faced them in an unsatisfactory way, many trying to run through, others partially jambing and sticking'in the soft mud at the side. The paco was far in excess of what is usually practicable in Hongkew, in a great degree due to the line given being free from the usual heavy upturned earth and deeply cut furrows, but still more perhaps to a veteran clodhopper and two other "V's." One of the leading three disappeared in the willow jump just. before the finish, coming out rather dirtier than some who had commenced diving earlier. The last few hundred yards were hotly contested between Messrs. Crawford on Venture Callaway on Cludhopper, the former just winning by a trifle. After them came Messrs. McCarthy, Hegenauer, Wallace, &e., the first heavy weis to be qualitied, being Mr. Chris. Moller on A few happily inspired words of new poa'sgrecting between some memers riding with the hunt end other admire ing but "non-contributing friends who, perhaps through over eagerness to watch the sport, got in the way.
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