By "Jose"
HE Club Hippique International brought the 1939 season to a close with a highly successful meeting at their picturesque paddock on Hungjao Road, yesterday. The course set was without a doubt the most difficult yet laid, and included a fence three feet and nine inches in height, a most formidable "triple bar", a double fence, walls, gates, ditches, and a real Irish bank made extra tricky by a rail on the landing side.
Miss Jean Simmons was the first] tricky course is promised than that competitor to enter the arena (happy laid yesterday. term; y nee us Ld like "muro The card read: LAS Starting bell clanged iis. E D. Haig de.
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this young horsewoman ride better, she cleared fifteen jumps successfully before the judges had marked up The prizes were very kindly pre-against her the faults which spelled sented to the winners by the Mar-dismissal She was beaten for second quite Taliani di Marchio. place by only three jumps by Mrs.
Andrews, who brought out Idiot's Delight for his frst appearance in the paddock since he established a high jump record of four feet and five inches in the spring.
First place went to Int. H. D. Rodger on Nek-Nek with the fine score of 25 clean jumps.' Nek-Nek showed himself to be in a class of his own, and gave an exhibition of clean, "ying" jumping which we will not easily forget. He still retains his aversion for ditches but to a lesser degree than last season, and we look forward to seeing him and his rider establishing some sensational records when the paddock: reopens in the spring.
The general standard of riding was remarkably high, and the Club is to be congratulated on the great advance in horsemanship which its inception has made possible. So successful was the int declared to be that an extra meeting will be held next Sunday morning. An even more (Sta) doo. (Bat) 60e, abe,
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