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view to stopping the " racing, " which meant that the 

 way some of them went was getting a bit too reckless. 

 It had no real effect, and so next year the Cup was 

 reinstated. If there had been a Cup in 1S99, a lady 

 would probably have won it, but the records were not 

 ■carefully kept and cannot therefore during that season be 

 taken to be absolutely reliable. In 1900, as already 

 recorded, Mrs. Lamond Walker won it for the second time. 

 In 1901, Mr. G. B. Deakin, who had not had much luck 

 in these contests and had several times made a big effort 

 to win the Paperchase Cup, got the Average Cup on a 

 very nice horse named Colebrook. He was another of 

 your " steady and stolidy, jolly-bank-holiday " every-day 

 horses, and he carried his light-weight owner with much 

 success throughout the season. In 1902, Mr. Gresson 

 won for the second time, his horse in that year being 

 a beautiful grey named Monte Carlo. Our photographic 

 artist has done him fair justice, as those who knew the 

 horse will admit. He was a perfect ride, and as clever and 

 tractable as could be wished ; the acme of a light weio-ht 

 blood hunter. In 1903, Dr. W. C. Hossack was the 

 successful candidate on a little chestnut mare named 

 Lucy Glitters. She was a thorough-bred mare and was 

 originally imported by Mr. R. B. Lamotte, who sold her 

 to the Earl of Suffolk. His Lordship hoped that she 

 might measure 14-2 and so be a little gold-mine for 

 pony steeplechases, but she just missed it and eventually 

 <:ame into the possession of Dr. Hossack, of whom she 

 took great care, never once, we believe, giving him a 

 fall. In 1904, Captain Frank Maxwell, V. C, won on 

 English Lord. This horse was an Australian and not 

 an Englishman as his name rather suggests. He was 

 a clinker — there is no other word for him — and one 

 of the best-looking ones that has ever been seen out 

 paperchasing. He was so handy that you could have 



