230 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1892 



Mr. E. Yerbm-gh, M.P., Mr. E. W. Beckett, M.P., Mr. 

 Eoger Eykyn, the Hon. E. Chandos Leigh, Q.C., Mr. W. 

 Jaffray, Captain Allfrey and party, Captain Morrall, Mr. 

 George Granville, Mr. Osier, Mr. Lupton, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Blyth, Mr. J. W. Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Major 

 Cosmo Little, the Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Verney, Eevs. 

 G. H. Biggs, F. S. Hewson, and A. H. Watson, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Cassel and party, the Hon. E. G. Verney, Mr. and 

 Mrs. Sanders, Mr. A. D. Flower, Mr. J. C. Gardner, Mr. 

 Clifford Chambers, and many others too numerous to 

 mention. The stewards were the Eight Hon. Henry 

 Chaplin, M.P., the Hon. H. Fitzwilliam, M.P., and Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke. The Hon. E. C. Leigh, Q.C., was 

 judge. Lord Willoughby was starter, Captain Henry Allfrey 

 was Clerk of the Course, and Mr. John Harbage was Clerk 

 of the Scales. The House of Commons Eace started above 

 Herd Hill, and the line lay right across Hardwicke big 

 field, and, turning round Brixfield Farm, lay eastward 

 round another flag, and back round Crab's Castle, and home 

 across the flat to a field just under Herd Hill Farm. It 

 was about three miles. The Midland Sportsmen's course 

 was very similar, but was rather longer, about three and a 

 half miles. It started near Bog Farm, on the Banbury 

 Eoad, and round Brixfield Farm and the same turning flag; 

 then it went all round Battleton Holt, and back just by 

 the corner of the Oakfields, and so home by Crab's Castle. 

 Jem Cooper was stationed on old Balliol between this 

 point and the winning waggon to show the way back, 

 and right cheerily did he fulfil his task. If it had not 

 been for the terrible accident which brought the spoi*t 

 to an abrupt conclusion, the races would have been a 

 thorough success. 



The following is a detailed account of the racing : 



THE HOUSE OF COMMONS POINT-TO-POINT STEEPLECHASE 

 of 21. each, p.p., with 401. added, for horses bond fide the property of, and 

 regularly liuuted this season by, members, which have never won any race 

 under G.N.H. Rules (except point-to-point races or red-coat races limited 

 to one particular Hiuit), and that were in their possession on or before 

 March 1st, 1892; to be run in two classes — heavy weights, 14st. and 



