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on with ci loiio- lead. In the meantime, Mr. Foster, 

 having remounted, was courageously pressing on in ad- 

 vance of Welcome, but Shamrock was winded too much 

 to hold out, and fell, a few fences further on, quite blown, 

 and owing to the long rest it made on the ground, people 

 at a distance, fearing that it was dead, made a general 

 rush towards it, but it resumed its legs just as Wallflower 

 came galloping in a winner by twenty lengths from Firefly 

 — Mr. Womersley being loudly cheered. Welcome fell at 

 a fence in the second round, and being hopelessly in the 

 rear. Captain Brace retired. 



" The Farmers' Cup, value £20, for horses, the property of tenant 

 farmers and tradesmen residing in Mr. Arkwright's hunt district ; 

 the horses to have been hunted with Mr. .Arkwright's hounds, and 

 to have been the property of the present owner since January ist, 

 1876, and have never won a race vahie £10; i2st. and upwards; 

 2s. 6d. entrance, to go to tlie fund; six horses to start, or no race; 

 2 miles. 



Mr. J. Cutts, jun.'s, Edwin (Yeo) ... 

 Mr. Brown's Camden (Mr. Kirkby)... 

 Mr. F. \V. Chilton's Hunting Lass (Owner) 



Mr. Miller's Tommy (Owner) 



Mr. Baber's Tom (Mr. H. Baber) 



Mr. K. Lowe's Harkaway (F. Firr) 



" Harkaway went away with the lead, with four in close 

 attendance, and the others well up, but Harkaway falling 



