1894] CAPTAIN JACOBSON. 205 



Carabineers. There are very few better horsemen or quicker 

 men to hounds than he is, and always has been. Having 

 hunted about six days a week all his life, he professed to 

 be tired of it, and told the writer so. Captain Jacobson 

 was at that time living in Leicestershire. Next season the 

 Meynell hounds were out and running well over the Sutton 

 country, and the brook of that name was in front of them. 

 Most people made a detour and crossed it by a ford, and 

 when the present writer got up to the hounds at a check 

 there were three men with them — the only ones who had 

 jumped the brook, and a big one it is — and one of them 

 was the indifferent man about hunting, bareheaded. Mr. 

 Harry Boden, I think, was another, and young Mr. Foster 

 of Brailsford, of show-ring renown, the third, and I fancy 

 it was Mr. Boden's horse that landed on Captain Jacobson's 

 prostrate hat. 



Mrs. Jacobson, too, is a very fine horsewoman, and 

 some years ago, in the Bicester country, used to jump 

 gates like other people jump sheep-hurdles. 



Other new names were — E. Arliss, New Lodge ; A. T. 

 and E. E. Barnes, Chesterfield ; Major Beadnell, Coxbench 

 Hall ; R. F. Bristowe ; Major Hallo wes, Marchington Hall, 

 vice Captain Holland, gone abroad ; James Meakin, West- 

 wood Manor, Stoke-on-Trent ; William Mills ; J. H. Riley, 

 Somersal House, Somersal Herbert ; and H. Unwin, 

 Farnah Hall. 



On March 21st, the first of Sir Peter Walker s point-to- 

 point races was held. The following account appeared in 

 Land and Water : — 



Now the genial Master of the Dove Valley Harriers, Sir Peter Walker, 

 adopted an idea for a point-to-point race on the 21st instant that wound up his 

 season's sport, which from the very outset spelt success with the least amount 

 of trouble to the inaugurator. His plan was to have a ladies' nomination point- 

 to-point race open to all England, barring only winners under Newmarket or 

 G.N.H. rules. The nominator of the winner to receive a diamond heart given 

 by Sir Peter Walker ; the owner of the winner to take the sweepstake. Fifty 

 ladies who hunt in Derbyshire and Staffordshire were invited to nominate any 

 horse or rider they thought good enough to win them the coveted trophy. Undei- 

 such conditions and in such hands the race was bound to prove a success, and 

 forty entries tigured on the card, which included such well-known performers as 



