54 FOX HUNTING. 



joined, these men and other members, all active 

 riders, kept horses expressly for hunting; and 

 there was hard riding in the hunting field, the 

 ordinary post and rail and stake and rider fences 

 forming no obstacle, as the horses with their 

 riders took these leaps without hesitation, fear, or 

 disposition to shirk. 



FIRST ROSE TREE CLUB RACES. 



Soon after these Philadelphia men joined the 

 Rose Tree Club, races were instituted on the old 

 Rose Tree track, with the steeple chase course 

 across the present Bullock farm, over the post and 

 rail fences as they stood, with added stake and 

 rider fence and hurdle jumps, and also with a 

 stone wall jump on the track grounds. Hurdles 

 were constructed on the track for hurdle 

 races; and flat races and farmer races were also 

 popular. 



The people of Delaware and Chester Counties 

 and Philadelphians took great interest in the 

 races, and they with the farmers of the county, 

 who turned out in great numbers, crowded the 

 race grounds. Many handsome turnouts, four- 

 in-hand coaches, tandem and double teams, with 

 single teams of all descriptions, and horseback 

 riders, both ladies and gentlemen, filled up the 

 inner grounds of the racing field. The club, then 



