1895] MR. ARTHUR THURSBY. 297 



right hand both in going out and coming in, and finishing 

 on Hodnell Hill very near the starting place. It was won 

 by that celebrated rider, the late William Cowper, of 

 Farnborough, after a very fine race with a Mr. Webb, who 

 came from near Eugby. Mr. Arthur H. Thursby was 

 third. He was leading at one time, but came to an awfully 

 thick place near Wormleighton, where Mr. Cowper gave 

 the lead. The late Mr. Bawcutt rode in this race. While 

 on the subject of point-to-point races, we should like to 

 record one or two mentioned in the Old Book by "Venator "■ 

 (Mr. John Cooper, of Warwick). On the 17th of March, 

 1831, Sir E. Mostyn, Bart., gave a handsome silver taukard 

 to be run for by horses honct jide the j^roperty of, and rode 

 by, Warwickshire farmers. Lord Anson and Mr. J. Eussell, 

 M.P., stewards of the Spring races, fixed upon the course, 

 which lay between Itchington Holt and High Dowti, four 

 miles, all grass with heavy fences. The race was won by 

 Mr. H. Horley's chesnut mare, ridden by the owner, 

 beating Mr. Eussell's black horse, ridden by the owner^ 

 and four others. 



In 1836, on the 17th of March, twenty-one horses 

 started in the bis: race at Bourdon Hill, near Stratford- 

 on- Avon. The ground was chosen by the umpires, 

 Captains Lamb and Cunynghame (no doubt our old 

 friend "Bangalore"), and the race was won by Mr. 

 Clifford's Lady Teazle. In the same year, on the 21st of 

 March, the Warwickshire and Leamington Grand Steeple- 

 chase took place. The umpires were Sir E. Mostyn, 

 though Mr. Sanderson officiated for the former, and Mr. 

 Brown, C.C. at Warwick, had the management. The 

 starting point was a large meadow in the occupation of 

 Mr. Walker, about a mile and a half from Southam, the 

 line pointing towards Leamington, and the winning post 

 was placed in a field a short distance from the one in which 

 the horses started. The distance rather exceeded four miles. 

 The coimtry was in good condition, and the fences, though 

 practicable, were generally strong and stiff. There were 

 seventeen starters, and the race was run in fourteen minutes. 



