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thing- if she could be induced to face the *' regulation," a 



fence that in her schools, she had resolutely refused to- 



have anything to do with. However, in the race she was 



bustled over it before she knew where she was, and then had 



only to canter home. Lord Suffolk supplied the winner 



of 1900 — in Franciscan, a beautiful grey horse who was 



ridden by "Mr. Loftus " (Mr, Loftus Beatty), quite one 



of the best G. R.'s we have ever had in India, in 



1901 Major Ferrar's good horse Protection, ridden by 



Mr. Harry Stokes, won, and later on in the year he as 



near as possible vron the Hunter's Hurdle race in Calcutta. 



He was a very fine horse indeed — a typical well-bred 



weight carrier, and his owner thought so well of him that 



at the end of his Battery's Indian service he took him 



home, and hunted him for many seasons. Since 1902 two 



G. R.'s have held an absolute mortgage on this event. 



Captain Holden won it for the first time in that year on 



Eldorado ; Mr. Pugh won it on Ladybird in 1903 ; Captain 



Holden again in 1904 on Eric ; Mr. Pugh again in 1905 



on Mr. Maurice Turner's Look Out, who was also quite 



invincible in the handicap chase of the same year, and in 



1906, 1907 and 1908 Captain Holden's Lord Harry has 



swept the board. We close our chapter with the roll of 



honour : — 



THE HUNTER'S STEEPLECHASE, 



