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signal were Aconite, Marguerite, Belinda, Golden Spray 

 and Eau-de-Vie, followed by Islonsay, Cockell, Saturn 

 and Barney. Lord George Murray came down at the drop. 

 The order remained unchanged till the Gurriah Hat Road 

 was crossed, and the natural bund and hurdle had been 

 jumped, but here Aconite missed the paper and let 

 Marguerite get in front of him in the lane to the 

 Mahomedan graves. Once in the open again, however. 

 Aconite led, and was followed by the mare, Islonsay, 

 Saturn, Eau-de-Vie, Belinda, Cockell, Barney and Golden 

 Spray. The same order w^as maintained all the way to 

 the bund country where Cockell improved his position, 

 and Saturn also lay close up. Marguerite beginning to 

 tire as they jumped the water. In the Tollygunge Lane 

 Belinda went up fourth, and at the wall in the corner the 

 order was : Aconite and Saturn leading, closely followed 

 bv Islonsay and Belinda, Cockell and Eau-de-Vie next. 

 Marguerite whipping in. In the straight Aconite galloped 

 clean away from them all and his field being all badly 

 beaten two fences from home. Cockell ran out at the 

 third-last fence, and lost Mr. Orr the Heavy Weight Cup, 

 Marguerite being the first welter weight in. The follow- 

 ing was the order : — 



Major Turner on Aconite ... i 



Mr. Butler ,, Saturn ... 2 



Lord Fincastle ,, Islonsay ... 3 



Mr Barrow ,. B^-linda ... 4 



Mr. GressoM ,, E;Tu-fle-Vie ... 5 



Mr. G. W. Walker .. Marguerite (h) ... 6 



Major Turner is to be congratulated upon a very 

 excellent performance, and Mr. Walker's win was also 

 immensely popular. After the run there was a chota hazri, 

 at which the members of the hunt v^ere " At Ho'me " to 

 all their friends. 



1898. 



He wins all the way, and the rest-- sweet, they say. 



Is the smeil of the newly-turned plough, friend ; 

 But you smell it too close when it stops eyes and nose, 



And you can't tell your horse from your cow, friend ! 



Lindsay Gordon. 



1 HAVE a very stale subject to handle and a still staler 

 stump of a pen. It has been talked of already by three 



