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current season. (2) No race to be open to horses 

 hunted outside the Hmits of the Hunt or Hunts 

 promoting the Meeting or the neighbouring Hunts, 

 but there may be one or more races open to 

 specified Regiments, including Yeomanry, and, 

 with the special permission of the Stewards 

 of the National Hunt Committee there may be 

 one race open to horses, or their owners, nomin- 

 ated by the Master or Masters of Hounds under 

 whose auspices the Meeting is held. 



The rules respecting the value of stakes are 

 on the same lines as those in force at Point-to-Point 

 Meetings. An additional rule is that no one 

 who is or has been a licensed jockey is permitted 

 to ride at these meetings. The idea is certainly 

 a good one but I do not think that these meetings 

 will be easily managed by an amateur staff. It 

 should be needless to say that the rules respecting 

 the fences etc. do not apply to these meetings 

 and that a winner at them is not penalised at 

 ordinary meetings under National Hunt Rules 

 though he may be at a Bona Fide Hunt Meeting. 



To emphasise the fact that in the early days 

 of Point-to-Point Meetings those who had to do 

 with them did nothing to bring them under 

 proper control I may tell an amusing incident 

 which took place within my own knowledge. 

 A Point-to-Point Meeting was got up in a certain 

 Hunt, a large entry was obtained, and a capital 

 course was selected. Altogether it was a very 

 sporting affair, and there was a capital race. 

 But unfortunately the rider of the second failed 



