English polo this season has been mediocre, at times feeble to a degree, and had it not been for the visits of the above-mentioned teams the season might fairly be written down as retrogressive, The Jodhpur polo team have taken part in many matcher, too many perhaps for man and ponies always to give of dest, but in their highest form they stand out as re-Presentatives of Indian polo, polo which as stated above might turn out to be the best in the world.
Sales of polo ponies are always teresting, for in contradistinction to those in which blood stock is concerned prices go entirely by the result of public performances.
At the dispersal of the famous Eaton Stud in June the Duke of Westminster realized the comparatively large sum of 5635 guineas for 18 ponies. Of this number two ponies went for over 600 guineas each, three for over 500 guide: each, one for over $00 guineas and' eight ponies for over 200 guineas each, the remainder making smaller individual sums, County Club polo is now in Zull swing and such tournaments as there held at Rugby and Cirencester are rome of the most pleasant séuniens of the polo season, Shooting Aagust 12 has been duly celebrated, but the celebrations have not in most parts of the United Kingdom been surrounded with Breat dalat. The season of 1925 is one of these which seemed to promise well but the promise has not in most places been fulfilled. Whether the May conditions are blame for this, or the early summer drought and want of insect food, or whether it was lack' breeding stock left from the two previous years the writer cannot say with certainty. Possibly a mixture of all three may help to ccount for it, with " little disease in places thrown in, though disease is certainly not widespread. In ary case bags of 16 or 18 brace were to yield a far higher average. all that were got on moore known The partridge season opens within ten days and again, in the East ern counties, at one time seemed promise well, Whether this Promise will mature or not time will very soon show. The writer has lately heard very depressing accounts from some parts of Norfolk, but until the harvest has for keepers to forecast what coveys there are. Wild pheasants as opposed to hand-reared birds are reported as doing decidedly well. which dropped into the water. ing in himself to retrieve the he got caught by weeds and fail to make the bank was drowned. those who have shot wild dock in remote surroundings and have done the same thing, his fate is easily realized. is possible that the stalking season of 1925 may be an urumally successful one. Weights ant heads aretosomeextent amutior of carefal shooting. To an owner whose first care is to kill off the poorer beasts and to leave, if possible, the younger and heavier stags mature, the reward comes. But under lessee whose only thought is the bagging of the best beads and of the heaviest beasts wherever' he. comes across thems, the finest of forests will deteriorate.
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