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favoured by the well-known ability of his noble owner 

 across a country of any kind, but when next our crack lady 

 rider elects to try conclusions with the very best horsemen 

 we have, I fully^ believe that after her magnificent riding 

 this morning, her mount will carry the public confidence 

 and coin, i have never seen a finer piece of riding than 

 the finish for yesterday's Cup, never have we had such a 

 close thing within sight of home, and never was a race for 

 the Cup, which might have been so easily lost, so prettily 

 won ; but of this anon. Claret, despite his gallant 

 (Majors are always gallant, and this one is no exception) 

 owner's weight, was by many good judges considered the 

 best horse in the race. St. Patrick, despite the fact of his 

 being one of Mr. Macklin's latest shipment, was also a 

 good deal fancied, and, as the result showed, very rightly 

 so. Gipsy, Cinders, Black Prince, and Telescope, all 

 useful, safe horses, also met with a modicum of support ; 

 while the handsome little Ram's Hornie was a good deal 

 fancied by her stable. What she may be able to do we 

 must wait till next cold weather to see, as yesterday she 

 and her rider dissolved partnership almost before entering 

 on business at all. This is much to be regretted, as her 

 ow^ner was confident of success. 



Nelly and Lowlander were absentees, the former being 

 very wisely reserved for the Chota Cup, and the latter 

 suffering, so his owner informed me after the Golf dinner 

 from '' staggers." 



The foxes were allowed a wide margin, and it was 

 more than twenty minutes past seven when the eager 

 field was despatched on the momentous journey before 

 them. 



The first obstacle encountered was a good solid mud 

 wall which was negotiated by the lot in great style. At 

 the next obstacle, a hurdle, Mr. Haidand Meriot's mare 

 pecked badly, unshipping her rider, whom subsequent 

 proceedings interested no more, the running being taken 

 up by Commissioner, who w^as not, however, ridden in 

 his owner's best style, and trying to cut it at the up jump 

 alongside of the gallery, he upset Mr. Peel's good horse 

 Skipper and entirely lost him his chance — by no means 

 a bad one— of the race. On an occasion like the Cup day, 

 surely the least the rider of a doubtful jumper can do is to 

 accept instead of trying to give a lead, and much sympathy 

 was expressed for Mr. Peel's unlucky mishap. Over the 



