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in 1905, when he was second to Mistletoe. The following- 

 is the official record : — 



1908. 



The PAPERCHASt: Cup of 190S was in every way 

 worthy of its own past, for it was a hard knock-out 

 light all the wav, over very rough country with plenty 

 of heavy fencing calculated to test the ability of the 

 best of hunters. The course w^as laid in the Jodhpore 

 country, and included all the regulation spots over 

 which Cups have been run and won from time immem- 

 orial. It started and finished at the end of the Bund 

 Country, took in that strip, and then went on over the 

 IMolla Hat Road, down to the railway and back again via 

 Tollygunge Gardens Lane, up parallel with the Molla 

 Hat Road to a finish over the Ladies' Wall and the final 

 hurdle. There was an enormous crowd of spectators, both 

 mounted and on foot, and as a very large number offences 

 were in full view, it was an ideal course for the gallery, 

 who, needless to say, took every advantage offered them 

 and galloped from point to point to see as much as it was 

 possible to see of the contest. The morning w^as a very 

 hot and dusty one, and there being neither rain nor dew to 

 lay the dust, the people riding in the chase were absolutely 

 choked before they got to the finish, and at least two 

 of the three falls which occurred were undoubtedly due 

 to horses not being able to see where they were going. 

 Ermine came down jumping off a road, and Tired Tim 



