Routine Orders by Colonel W. F. ful Day: The Tragedy There were gloomy forebodings as to the annual Paper Hunt Race Meeting booked for the Shanghai Race Course on Saturday, but they were in no way realized." On paper the entries were not' at all imposing, either as to quality or numbers," As regards jockeys, several of the leading race riders were at Hongkong or on leave and an alarm. ing number of those remaining in town were laid up with injuries, so it seemed an impossibility to get jockeys even for the apparently indifferent ponies entered. It says much for the sporting spirit of the aper-hunters that jockeys were! found in sufficient numbers to enable the parade of fields quite up' to the numerical average of such meetings, and it is a greater to the skill of these jockeys and the quality of the slandered ponies that most of the racing really was very] lose and the times. were distinctly creditable for hunters at the end of 8 gruelling season,
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