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and-a-quarter miles of very excellent going. From start 

 to finish, the course bore evidence that a very great deal 

 of care had been bestowed upon it. 



In many places the ground had been carefully 

 levelled, corners cut away, several trappy little ditches 

 filled up, awkwardly protruding branches of trees cut 

 away, and at one point a new ride had been cut through 

 a belt of jungle to avoid an awkward bend. In the sandy 

 lane leading from the "hole in the wall" to the Molla 

 Hat Road a mail had been employed to fill in the deep 

 cart ruts, making the lane fairly good going for the 

 occasion. 



Starting near Jodhpur station at the end of the 

 Monsoon ride, after the first hurdle the course led across 

 the Gurriah Hat Road, and away due west in the direction 

 of Tollygunge. Crossing a mud wall in the open, it 

 turned sharply to the right to the "gates," where a 

 couple of mud walls had been erected, forming a very 

 neat " in and out " jump. From there the line bent to 

 the left parallel to the Molla Hat Road. A hurdle was 

 jumped, and then the Molla Hat Road was crossed by 

 the brick pillars, and then a drop jump and bank. From 

 this point the direction was first towards the Old Man's 

 Crossing, but there was soon a slight bend to the left 

 which suggested the next level crossing as the objective. 

 But after passing the high banked tank on the left a 

 mud Avail had to be negotiated, and the course ran over 

 a raised patch of peas to the "hole in the wall," and 

 so into the sandy lane leading to the Molla Hat Road. 

 Eastwards along the Molla Hat Road for about fiftv 

 yards, and then up a lane to the right, past an extension 

 of the durzee'shws^.^^y and out to the open where a rather 

 big mud wall brought Topsail to grief, depriving Mr. 

 Griffith of the lead which he had just gained at this point. 

 Crossing the Tollygunge Lane a new cutting through a 

 belt of jungle led into a nice stretch of open country 

 running parallel to the bund country, the latter having 

 been found too heavy to gallop over. Crossing the end of 

 the bund country homewards the chase led close down to 

 the Gurriah Hat Road, then through a cutting back again to 

 circumnavigate a patch of jungle, past the small tank 

 associated with Mr. Verschoyle's name, and over the 

 Gurriah Hat Road in the direction of the railway, over 

 -a hurdle, and then bending to the left it ran parallel, 



