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direction of home. Zulu, Commissioner, Red Rover, Mr. Rawlinson 

 and Zil were now leading The pace being fast, a slippery lane here 

 made most of the riders take a pull at their nags, but on again reaching 

 the open the leaders began to race ; a mud wall here brought Red 

 Rover to grief. After skirting a clump of jungle the red flags appeared 

 with a nice run in over two hurdles Zulu novv appeared to have the best 

 of it, but Air. Anderson was not to be done, and shaking up Commis- 

 sioner he forged to the front, and won pretty easily by a couple of 

 lengths from Zulu ; Mr. Rawlinson third, Mr. Feel fourth, Mr. Helyar 

 fifth, Mr. Uunne sixth. 



The attendance at the Paperchase yesterday was very meagre, and 

 the number of followers few We suppose many sportsmen are reserv- 

 ing themselves for the Cup, which they advertised to be run for on 6th 

 March This has caused a good deal of grumbling as from previous 

 advertisemsnts it was generally understood that the Cup would be the 

 second chase in March ; some horses, therefore, will not be qualified to 

 start, unless the number of chases for qualification is reduced from six 

 to five. The weather yesterday was decidedly warm, and horses 

 and riders, as a rule, came in utterly exhausted. The course was very 

 open, though the going was soft, and the distance considerably longer 

 than we have generally been accustomed to. Falls and mishaps were 

 plentiful : Mr Watkins was swept off by the wing of the first hurdle, and 

 Mr. Karon got a nasty fall at a big bund. He, however, escaped with 

 what he described as ''an awful shaking." Mr. Edwards parted company 

 with his saddle owing to his horse stopping short at the last fence. 

 Mr. Learoyd and Lord William both came to grief when leading close 

 to home. This was owing to the paper being laid close to a shallow sort 

 of ditch into which Handicap tumbled and Jack rolled over him. 

 Nobody, however, was any the worse for the mishaps. 



The start took place just beyond the Jodhpore Thannah on the 

 right hand side of the road, the paper being carried by Messrs. Perman 

 and Fox. Amongst the starters we noticed the Mem Sahib on Black 

 Pearl, Mr. Peel on his grey, Captain Rochfort and Mr Burn on a pair 

 of browns, the Greek on the Villam, Lord William on Jack. Mr. Mer- 

 cantile on Zil, Mr Beresford on Lord Donald, Mr. Anderson on Com- 

 missioner, Mr. Sandilands on Dolly Varden, The Bummer on Premier, 

 Dr. Morgan on Dauntless, Mr. Apcar on Tambourine, Mr. Learoyd on 

 Handicap, Mr. Dunne on a black, Mr Rivers on Magpie, Mr. Croft and 

 Mr. Gough on Jim, etc., eic. 



At the call of time we dashed over the first hurdle, the leading 

 division consisting of Tambourine, Mr. Dunne, Lord Donald, Black 

 Pearl, and Jack. We next turned towards the long track of open going 

 generally known as the bund-country. The pace now was very fast. 



