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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



appearance was at a meeting held at Bycullah Park, Enfield, 

 which lasted two days. The Steeplechase course is now 

 entirely built over ; at that time the Bycullah meeting" was 

 quite a little Croydon, and it was here that "Once too Often " 

 probably ran his best race. Nine faced the starter. " Lucy," 

 a mare with a long list of winning brackets to her name, was 

 made favourite ; her jockey caught hold of the back of the 

 saddle at every fence; just as Mr. Single was getting on terms 



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with her (she was leading); "Once too Often" failed to pull 

 himself together, and coming down heavily at the last fence, 

 turned a complete somersault, and where he fell he remained 

 for some minutes, but was only blown and got up uninjured. 

 The winning jockey was by no means the inexperienced man 



