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little culvert with a tank on the near side to accommodate 

 any restless ones. It is, perhaps, as well that the severe 

 fencing had tailed them off a bit, for had there been a crush 

 at this corner, serious grief must have ensued. For the 

 half mile, the course was the same as last Thursday's, 

 namely, down the Tollygunge Garden Lane through the 

 hole in the wall and away again in the open over three 

 walls. 



Kailana took one of these a foot too low, and Mr. Green 

 Wilkinson took a crumpler, landing in some of that pretty 

 evergreen foliage commonly known as cactus. The paper 

 then went straight on '' forrard " over a hurdle, and then 

 right-handed to a small wall heading back to the Molla 

 Hat Road once more. It was at this obstacle that clever 

 little Dinah came to grief. The little mare misjudged the 

 distance, took off too close ; clouted it and turned head 

 over heels on top of her feather-weight owner. Mr. King 

 was dazed for a minute or two, and unfortunately the mare 

 got away from him. Had he managed to keep hold of 

 her, he would even then had been well in it, as when he 

 fell, the second man was not in sight. Ratafia now came 

 on attended by Tantalus, Half Pav, Sir Colin, Blazes, 

 Bannagher lying next, with Flatcatcher some distance in 

 rear, being ridden as hard as his sporting mistress could 

 shove him along, and making up his lost ground very 

 fast. In the plough to the north of the Molla Hat Road 

 was placed a diminutive water jump, one of the few small 

 fences on the course. 



Landing over this Banshee pecked and rolled over, the 

 sticky plough being mainlv responsible. Some hurdles 

 came next and then on the other side of the high ground a 

 wall. When thev had reached this point, thev were within 

 measurable distance of their journey's end and after jumping 

 the drop fence at Pilgrim's corner, they swung left-handed 

 and headed straight for the Gurriah Hat Road and the 

 finish. When they came in view of the spectators. Ratafia 

 was seen to hold a slight advantage from Tantalus, and 

 over the next two fences (hurdles) the positions remained 

 unchanged. Coming over the road, however, Tantalus 

 drew level, and racing up level at the last hurdle, he landed 

 with a slight lead. Both horses hit them hard, but Tan- 

 talus was quickest away, and drawing to the front in the last 

 few strides won a most sensational race by a very short 

 length. Half Pay done to a turn was third two lengths 



