The Consolation Hunt Monday's paper hunt was an tire fiasco. Nobody went the course and the entire hunt split up all over the country. 'The Master and Stewards vainly strove to rally the 'Hunt but those in the van had got} away on the trail of the Ladies' Hunt and nothing could stay them. They had been warned that blue and white paper would be laid but in the excitement of the chase they forgot all about it, At one period of the hunt four riders found themselves riding at a big jump with three riders riding at the jump, from the opposite direction.
There do not seem to have been many casualties but what thera were could, hardly have been, observed owing to the conditions. Tt is to be regretted, however, that Mr. Master fall at the first jump and was rather trampled on by several ponies, while at a later stage in the} hunt Mr, Kile broke his collar bone.
The hunt started at the corner! of Hungjao and Warren Roads with a comparatively small field of about 40 starters. Tt was laid by Mr, T. G, Drakeford and Mr. H.W.
Lester, From Artery Creek the trail proceeded over two rather broken down jumps which have not} een Inid for years, It was here that the hunt went wrong for the first time, for while the Master Stewards were negotiating these jumps the rest of the hunt ran Away from them. The right trail proceeded by an unfamiliar run} through a creek and then by the Bare Bole Tree and the Village of Kukumjow and through Corinth to Forth, At Forth" there was} another check but eventually' the right trail was found leading through the Rubicon Creek. The trail then followed the usual route up Miss Johnson's Line till it reached the Old Crow Creek. At the bridge, at which green paper was laid, there was no Steward to start the hunt. However the hunt proceeded without and followed. the Old Crow Creek along Pearce Roost as far as No. 7 Bridge, where they turned to the right on the usual run home to the Rubicon. Here the route diverged again to a new wade through Family Tree Creek, whence the trai laid straight to Westward Ho and finished at Suez, The Stewards were rather in a quandary as to whether or not to declare it a "no hunt? but it wag eventually course to let the card stand.
It read as follows:— if, S. Peake on Wild Strawberry Mr M. Mackintosh on Heather. 4 Mr A.B. Thompson on Silver: Wing ar. G. Fitagerald on Preach Money 8; Mr, D! H. Eustace on Bulfalo.
'The Cups for the China New Year hunt were kindly presented by the Deutscher Reiter-verein, and for the Consolation Hunt by the Shanghai Ladies' Paper Hunt Club.
Tuesday's Hunt Only about 30 riders competed in the last of the holiday hunts, held on Tuesday. The course was laid by Mr. H. G. Robinson, beginning at Springfield's Line and ending at Grayrigge's Finish near the World's End jump. However, the greater part of the hunt managed to short circuit the course and ran home from the Paint Brush Tree vid Discovery Inlet and Eureka Pass to the Zig Zag Jump. This took them 30 minutes. The remainder of the hunt, left to themselves without Master or Stewards, went by a different route, and after nosing out the paper through some miles of country eventually arrived home at the same place. It is regrettable to relate that the well-known Plain-field, ridden by Mr. F. B. Gibbings, lags and broke his neck, Mr. Oliphant also came to grief in the hunt, and suffered concession of the brain. He was brought in on a stretcher by a and taken to the where he is de-Fitzgerald on White Satin was the winner of the hunt and there was no heavyweight. The card reads as follows:—
Mr. G. Fitzgerald on White Satin Mr CE. Tricker on Honk Mr. 3: A! Mayes on. Manager Mr J: Blazing Corn Mr. W. G. Johne on Torrid Me. ©. Filiz on Don Carlos
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