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•country Sylvia pecked badly, unseated her rider, and all 

 but came down. This threw her back to nearly last, but by 

 the time the gully Avas reached, she was again third. In the 

 open by the Molla Hat Road Beeswing and Bush Girl came 

 up, and over the Ladies Wall Beeswing was in front, with 

 Bush Girl and Mascot second and third. This order was 

 maintained to the finish where Mr. Apostolides placed 

 them as foUows:^ — 



1904. 



The Thirtieth Anniversary of this now famous contest 

 came to pass last Tuesday, when an excellent race was 

 witnessed over the best of going and in open country, 

 where an excellent view of the morning's proceedino-s was 

 obtainable. The first Paperchase Cup was run in 1874, 

 though the game itself had started four years earlier, and 

 looking back over the old records one finds that the ground 

 •over which this race has been yearly fought out has been 

 very much the same year in year out. For instance, the first 

 Paperchase Cup finished at the " Red Road " — nowadays 

 known by the aid of a Municipal signboard as Dhakuria 

 Road. This year, however, for the first time on record 

 the scene of operations was shrfted to the sixth milestone 

 country, i.e., about a mile and a half beyond Jodhpore 

 Thannah, because owing to the recent rain all the country 

 round Jodhpore itself was too deep to ride. 



In spite of this, however, a very excellent course was 

 obtained, though it was slightly shorter than the averao-e 

 Cup course which is anything between 4 miles and 4j/< — 

 the course on Tuesday must have been well under the four. 

 The fences were decidedly stiff ones and there were about 

 fourteen of them, mostly walls about 3 ft. 9 to 4 ft. high. 

 The pace was brisk all through and there was a fair 



