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also been thoroughly effected. Eleven started, and the 

 placed horses were : — 



Major Meysey Thompson's " Monks- 

 hood," 6 yrs., 12 St. 10 lb. . . Capt. E. R. Owen i 

 Lord Cholmondeley's "Pride Hill," 



6 yrs., 12 St. 10 lb Mr. W. Beasley . 2 



Mr. Moore's "Roman Emperor," 



5 yrs., 12 St. I lb „ Craddock . 3 



Betting: — 10 to i Monkshood; 20 to i Pride Hill; 6 to i Roman 

 Emperor. 



Roman Emperor made play to the first open ditch, 

 where Old Tatt, Battue, and Longback fell. Corsair 

 also came to grief, and Bombay went out of the course. 

 Half a mile past the stand Geranium fell. Alabaster was 

 pulled up, and then Arcadian and Monkshood drew 

 away to the straight, when Arcadian was beaten and 

 Monkshood won by ten lengths ; six lengths between 

 second and third. 



1888 . . 



The cross country season came to a brilliant ending 

 at Sand own Park, the locus in quo this year. Its 

 beginning was mild ; its subsequent career not very 

 distinguished, but, like the post-boys of old days, "it 

 reserved a gallop for the town." The enforced post- 

 ponement of the Grand National Hunt meeting from 

 the early days of March to the 14th of April was 

 perhaps the best thing that could have happened to it. 

 Eleven again started, the placed horses being : — 



Mr. E. Jay's "Glen Thorpe," 4 yrs., 



10 St. 10 lb Mr. G. Lambton 1 



„ W. Fulton's "Battle Royal," 4 yrs., 



10 St. 10 lb )> T. Beasley . 2 



Lord Rodney's "Braceborough," 5 yrs., 



12 St. I lb „ D. Thirlwell 3 



Betting : — 4 to i Glen Thorpe ; 1 1 to 2 Battle Royal ; 9 to 2 Brace- 

 borough. 



