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Mr. Sewell commenced ridino- " Duchess" with hounds when 

 she was 5 years old, and rode her when she won the following- 

 races : viz., 14 St. Point-to-Point at Wintry Farm, P^ppino-, in 

 1892, when the ^Ji;oing was friohtfully heavy ; the 14 st. Point- 

 to-Point at Stondon in 1893, and the Essex Hunt Welter Cuj) 

 at Harlow, the same year. Unfortunately, in 1893, when she 

 mi^ht ha\t' had a chance of repeating- these j^erformances, the 



George Sewell on Polo Pony 



mare met with a very bad accident from barbed wire near Shaftes- 

 bury Farm, on the Copped Hall Estate, cutting- herself so 

 badly that for a lon^- time her recovery was despaired of. 

 However, thanks to the unremitting care of her attendant, 

 H. Allsopp, in carrying' out Mr. (i. Harris's instructions, 

 necessitating hot fomentations day and night for sexeral weeks, 

 the mare got over her terrible injuries, but was never the same 

 animal again, owing to the shrinking of the muscles of the 

 injured leq-. 



