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as misfortunes never come singly, Grimaldi fell back- 

 wards into the first brook ; Mr. Wesley's Lily held the 

 lead from the start until within half a mile of home, when 

 she fell, leaving Mr. Solloway's Daring Ranger to win 

 easily. The second race was a much more exciting 

 affair. Seven started, and for the last mile of the 

 course Mr. Cox's Quaker and Mr. C. G. Fletcher's Don 

 Cossack ran almost neck and neck, clearing the last 

 fence together, Don Cossack covering three-and-twenty 

 feet. By this he gained a little ground, and after a good 

 race won by a couple of lengths. 



The 30th of March saw eight well-known horses 

 start for a sweepstake of 25 sovereigns each in the 

 Amersham country, this being one of the many steeple- 

 chases arranged during the thirties in the metropoli- 

 tan district. Mr. Solloway's Daring Ranger came in 

 second, but as he was on the wrong side of the flags he 

 was disqualified. 



The race finished thus : — 



Mr. Anderson's "Arbutus," 



„ Kent's -'Jerry," . . . 



„ Fairlie's "Antelope," . . 

 Lord Pembroke's " Peverel," 

 Mr. Munroe's "Nell Gwynne. 



„ Horn's "Zigzag," . . . 



„ Caldecott's ch. g . . . 



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Mr. W. Weston 

 Captain Becher 

 Mr. W. Bean 

 ,, Anderson . 4 

 " A noble Lord ' 5 

 J. Mason ... 6 

 Mr. Fielding . . 7 



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The race started in a field close to Chalfont and 

 ended in a meadow just outside Amersham ; but the 

 race was not thought much of, the verdict being that 

 "the ground was light, the fences easy (there was not 

 even a hurdle in the last half mile), the distance short, 

 and the affair altogether more like racing than steeple- 

 chasing." 



Mr. Fairlie's Antelope, one of the competitors in the 

 above race, was a mealy bay with a white off hind leg. 

 He was got by Peeping Tom — a mare by Recruit, 



