Anything more calculated to put horse off jumping can hardly be {imagined than the irregular circle of fences over which they are tested. [The obstacles themselves are, some them, like no fence any: horse ever saw. Then there is the band, the surrounding cheering crowds, the banked-up flower beds, and at. night the artificial light. Remark-ling upon this to a well-known official at the close of the performance, he replied:
"Quite right. It takes the very best horsemen and the cleverest horses in the world to get round without a mistake, That's what we cater for." His English may perhaps have been faulty but his answer was unarguable, In addition to the usual swing-gate, painted loose brick wall, and Dush fence, there are a hog-back style and a fence which to anyone who has not seen it beggars description. Instead of three upright bars, one below the other, the bai in this fence are placed" thus: plan—
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.