424 STEEPLECHASING. 



Sixteenth fence (water jump, Fig. 255). There is a hedge 

 2 ft. 6 in. high and 2 ft. broad at base, in front of the water 

 and standing about a yard back from it. The water 

 measures about 1 1 ft. across, and the whole affair is about 

 1 6 ft. wide. 



The day after the race was run, I took the photographs 

 of which Figs. 256, 257, 258, 259 and 260 are reproductions, 

 to show the damage done. As probably all the depicted gaps 

 were the work of more than one horse, these illustrations 

 unfortunately do not give an exact idea of the extent to 

 which these fences could have been safely chanced by a 

 single animal. 



