The start of the New Year's day hunt was at the Blue Pots Village" on the Rubicon Road. Only a small field attended and it was started at 3.30 by the Master.
Two big wades in the first half mile strung the hunt out, and those who got through these wades first, secured a big advantage, and as none of the checks laid stopped the hunt, the bulk of the riders never got on close terms with the leading dozen. The hunt is a hard there are still very in this country named. From the start the hunt went to the No. 1 Tree and then down the line of jumps known as the Hound line, through the wade at the bottom, and to the Three Trees line of jambs. When the Pawn Shop was reached the paper went right-handed to the Soochow Creek with one or two nice water jumps, From this point to the Rubicon Creek (which was crossed close to the Long Village) it was a gallop on high ground, with numerous small grips and several nasty wades, After crossing the Rubicon Creek the paper lay down the Barren Creek line of jumps to the Bee Line, where the hunt finished.
It was a very hard hunt on the ponies us the going was on the heavy side, and there was no let up in a run of quite nine miles, unal from
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