244 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Miss Templar. For this meeting, a temporary " grand 

 stand " was erected, but it was not sufficiently patronised 

 to encourage a repetition of the experiment. 



There was an interval of three years between the 

 second and third of these meetings. Meantime, Sir 

 Henry Selwin Ibbetson had undertaken the mastership, 

 and under his superintendence important changes were 

 introduced. For the future, the meeting became an 

 annual one, and though still termed " private," it was 

 registered by Messrs. Weatherby, and the results were 

 published in the Racing Calendar. At the third meeting, 

 held in bitterly cold weather, on April 21st, 1881, the 

 master's horses, ridden by the Hunt servants, for the first 

 time took part in the races. A further novelty was the 

 introduction, as the first event, of a Point-to-Point Race, of 

 about i\ miles, one class to carry not less than list. /lb. 

 the other not less than i4st. The race was run in a 

 driving snowstorm. Eleven horses started, of whom eight 

 fell in the course of the race, leaving the master's Multum 

 in Parvo, ridden by Charles Littleworth (light weight), 

 Mr. Hervey Foster's Pilgrim, ridden by the owner (light 

 weight), and the master's Lawgiver, ridden by Fred Firr 

 (heavy weight), to finish in the order named. 



The other six events were well contested. .Sir 



