62 LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



Appended is a full list of the runners, the places of the first three only 

 being given : — 



The Essex Red-Coat Welter Race. Fifteen started. 



Mr. H. E. Jones's Colonel ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner i 



Capt. Ricardo's General Banks ... ... ... ... ... Owner 2 



Mr. R. D. Hill's Waterproof Owner 3 



Mr. George Sewell's Duchess ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. F. G. Barclay's Conquest ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. Howel Price's Rafter ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Major Carter's Beefeater ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. Pemberton Barnes's Bay Boy ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. W. Buckmaster's Speculator ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. A. BIyth's Bright Light Owner o 



Mr. L. R. Carr's Meteor ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. G. Gold's Ploughboy ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. G. Gilbey's Ruby ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Capt. Tufnell's Pig ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. C. K. Carr's Buccaneer ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



The Essex Red-Coat Light-Weight Race. Thirteen started. 



Mr. E. S. Bowlby's Catapult ... ... ... Mr. Loftus Arkwright i 



Mr. W. Dalton's Cypriot ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner 2 



Mr. Hubert BIyth's Pitlockie Mr. W. Buckmaster 3 



Mr. R. Y. Bevan's Squire Mr. S. Caldwell o 



Mr. W. Tower's Yokohama ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Major Carter's Spitfire ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. R. D. Hill's Eastern Lady ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. J. Swire's York ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. A. Tweed's Tap ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Capt. Cairn's Priestess ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. T. Tabor's Roscoe ... ... ... ... Mr. Tabor, jun. o 



Col. Lockwood's Snap-shot ... ... Mr. Beauchamp Yerburgh o 



The Farmers' Cup. Eight started. Heavy weights. 

 Mr. T. Christy's Chinaman ... ... ... ... ... Owner i 



Mr. Avila's Marquis ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. J. Newman's Conundrum ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Light weights. 

 Mr. T. Milbank's Sir Frederick ... ... Mr. Loftus Arkwright i 



Mr. S. Young's Widow Mr. H. Young 2 



Mr. T. Christy's Chequebook Mr. E. Christy 3 



Mr. H. Sworder's Crow ... ... ... ... ... ... Owner o 



Mr. Avila's Cigarette ... ... ... ... ... Major Carter o 



A Day on the Grass. 

 Riding on with some kindred spirits to the meet at Epping Long Green, 

 we remarked that we had to go back quite a month to recall a single run 

 with fox hounds that had had the smallest sparkle or vivacity in it — "the 

 luck of fox hunting," for we had evidently been ovit on the wrong days. 

 But one good day will make amends for many indifferent ones, and we shall 

 always recall with pleasure this day on the grass. Orange Wood used to be 

 as full of foxes as the pomum aurantium is of pips, but years of late have 

 found it as bloodless as the boiled fruit itself. No one anticipated a find in 

 the yellow grove, still less that a brace were in hiding when hounds were 

 thrown in at 11. 15. One of these broke at the keeper's end, and with the 

 Master's cry, " Ware wheat ! " ringing in our ears, we galloped the cart track 



