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in the lii^ht-wei^iu class, and Champion Cup for the best 

 hunter in the show at the h^ssex Aoricultural Meeting at 

 Romtord in 1893, and a first and second prize at Ross Horse 

 Show in 1893, ^"<^ two thirds at Hereford in the same year. 

 In 1894 he won the Essex Welter Point to Point, carrying 

 14 St. at Great Easton, when the going was cruelly heavy, and 

 followed this up by winning a steeplechase at Ipswich. He 

 was a rare performer across country, and would tackle anything 

 one liked to ride him at : Mr. Tweed says that he never got 

 to the bottom of him. He sold him eventually to Sir Gilbert 

 Greenall, the present Master of the Belvoir Hounds. 



Mr. A. J. Tweed's " Woodside ' 



Tlie season of 1890-91 will always be remembered as about the worst 

 on record, owing to three things: — dry cub hunting period, a very long 

 and continued spell of frost, a very dry and early spring. 



It opened so badly that I really thought it hardly worth while writing a 

 diary. Nor did I start to pen these lines until March 7th, 1891. I 

 remember one good morning's cub hunting from Nasing Coppice, from 

 whence we ran a fox to Warlies, and killed in the open. I remember 

 Matching Green, and associate with it a very indifferent run. 



I remember about a week afterwards being out in the Shatter Bushes 

 country, when, jumping into a road I jarred my spine, and had to be driven 

 home in a farmer's cart, and I did not ride again for about ten weeks, frost 

 intervening. I remember hunting one Wednesday, some time very near the 

 end of January, and having a very fair morning, finishing up with a good 

 gallop from Mark Hall to North Weald on my old grey pony. 



