The wee keen anticipation, of nsious meastzing of chantes, are over, ud theS. PH. C. Handicap of 1902 a thing of the past. It was run in bitterly cold ut fine weather, over ground that was in better condition than for some time past, nvtwithstauding the recent snow. The number of entries—!3—was splendid, and on all hands satisfaction was pressed at the handicap pi The ight mil E. S. Pert ind the me the Grave avoid poisonous imitations. jump, and the fence and dry cut on the flat near the new French Road.
The Big Grave had to be dealt wi then to the left by Black Auster's. the Sicuwei Road, the Fah-wal Line, and Flat to the Handicap Vill: by the false Jessfield Line jump, across the dia jump at Light Horse after which the paper led by the right bank of the Creek to the Ladies' j Bath, on to the Islnd by the wade neat the Cow jumps, with the finish near the Ferny Road.
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