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huntsman, the whole line being commanded by rising 

 ground. 



Just afterwards there was a steeplechase at Great 

 Marlow, of all places in the world, where the horses had 

 to carry no less a weight than 15 st., finishing over a 

 hedge into the turnpike road. The winner was Mr. 

 Webb's Holbeiness, who beat by a neck Mr. West- 

 brook's Grimaldi, called after the famous horse of that 

 name, no doubt because he was a grey, and he would 

 have won had it not been that he went the wrong side 

 of one of the flags. 



Then again the quiet district of East Grinstead 

 awoke to its first steeplechase on April 5th, 1836, 

 and here we find Captain Becher riding Captain 

 Fairlie's Wing, while Mr. Anderson rode his own 

 horse Album. The winner, however, having won at 

 Northampton, had to carry a 10 lb. penalty. Captain 

 Becher, who seems to have had a good many falls 

 at brooks, tumbled here, but was shot on to dry land ; 

 Treble X, ridden by his owner, Mr. Curwen, jumping 

 clean over him, while Album jumped over the pros- 

 trate horse. Wing, however, was remounted, and as 

 Treble X fell at the last brook Wing came in first 

 by two lengths. 



The second Norfolk and Suffolk steeplechase came 

 off on April 14th, one race being for tenant farmers who 

 hunted with Sir Vincent Wilson's hounds, and over 

 whose lands the hunt rode. Ben Land ran a horse in 

 this race, and rode it himself, but Mr. Blomfield's black 

 mare was successful in winninof. 



On 1 8th April there was another race in Yorkshire, 

 six well-known hunters starting over a four-mile course 

 from near Nunappleton, and finishing at the mill at the 

 Askam side of the York and Tadcaster road. The line 

 was tolerably stiff, the Old Floss being a formidable 

 brook, at which all the horses refused at first. Mr. G. 



