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would not have been dear at double the figure when Mrs. 

 Grossman had completed her education, for she has since 

 carried Mrs, Grossman seven seasons, and has never averaged 

 less than twenty-five days in each. Mrs. Grossman rarely goes 

 home before the hounds. This mare in 189S had the honour 

 of beating all the best horses in the Essex Hunt over the 

 stiffest and biggest country (in the Stondon district) ever 

 chosen for a point-to-point race in Essex. The race was run 

 in a wet fog, and nearing home the mare, ably ridden by Mr. 

 Seymour Galdwell, cleared four strands of naked wire. Mr. 

 Caldwell was leading at the time, and his cry of " ware wire ! " 

 as he tipped the high strands, did not exhilarate his pursuers, 

 and he ran home hands down. In 1899, "Ruth," in spite of 

 extra weight, repeated her triumph of 1898, coming in an 

 easy first, steered by Mr. Galdwell (the ground was as hard 

 as iron), and in the same year won the Essex Hunt Glub Gup. 



Tyler's X 



Wednesday, February i6th. Tylers X. The following out : Sir 

 Evelyn Wood, V.C, Mr. and the Misses Peel (two), Miss T. Buxton, L. 

 Arkwright, Arthur Bowlby and his three sisters (Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby had 

 gone to Mentone), A. J. Edwards, Tyndale White, John White, R. Y. 

 Bevan, T. Gilbey, Guy Gilbey, P. Gold, G. H. Lee, H. Horner, Ford 

 Barclay, Mrs. Singleton (a new comer), H. E. Jones, Miss Jones, C. E. 

 Green, F. Green, J. Green, H. Sworder, D. Gregory, Mr. Tosetti, young 



