Rumours and alarums reduced Sunday's (Feb, 20) field to one of {the smallest turnouts on record, only thirty eight. riders assembling for the start and not more than thirty Jcompeting in the hunt. The going }was surprisingly heavy and the hunt was a generous ten miles so it was heyday for lightweights on cross breds. Hayes, on Siboar, finished freshest of the lot to win' the lightweight prize and' four places behind him "came A. B, Tiefenbacher, JGold Vogel, to win the heavyweight.
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