The competition for the prize presented by Surgeon-Major Henderson, 8.V.C., for the best trained pony trained as a charger for service with the Volunteers on Parade or in the Field, came off on Saturday, not with remarkable punctuality, ina railed-off enclosure inside the rac course. Seats were provided for ladies, and there were a large number of peop e present ro witness thecompetition, We presume that it was the time at which the competition was held, and not apathy on the part of the Light Horse, that caused only one member of that body to enter, while even he scratched ' before the trial exme off. mn, the riding men go in for other amusements, and turn their ponies out to grass, the
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