CHAPTER IV. 

 The Heavy Weight Cup. 



The 'Mife history" of this Cup is so interwoven with 

 that of the Paperchase Cup itself that it leaves very little 

 to be said concerning it than has already appeared in the 

 foregoing chapter. It is nevertheless a subject that is 

 more than well deserving of a chapter all to itself, for if 

 the would-be possessor of the Paperchase Cup has to work 

 hard for his prize, the man who would win the Heavy 

 Weight Cup has to go one better. In the list of Cups and 

 conditions which is published in Chapter III, those for the 

 Heavy Weight Cup are set out, and it will be observed 

 that the competitor must stand list, ylbs., and ride I3st. 

 Compared to the weights that hunters are compelled to 

 carry in Heavy Weight Point-to-Point races in England, 

 i3St. is not at first glance out of the way, but in considering 

 this matter surrounding circumstances have to be taken 

 into the calculation. The first important difficulty is that 

 the I3st. and I4st. T.-B. hunter is by no means plentiful 

 in India, and in fact, is extremely difficult to come by, even 

 at an immodest price : whereas in every hunt at home 

 and certainly in the " cut 'em downs," horses of this stamp, 

 clean-bred, and masters of their I4st. and more over big 

 country, are plentiful. Then, again, there is the question, 

 and a very serious one, of the going under foot. At 

 home they would think a man mad to ask a horse to 

 gallop and jump with I3st. odd in the saddle upon such 

 ground as we get in India, and one doubts whether the 



