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INDEX 



Stkeplechases, iontimted — 

 Kilkenny, 97 

 Kilrue, 97 

 Kingsbury, 155 

 Leamington, 61, 90, 9S, 104, 112, 147, 



161 

 Leicester, 231 

 Lfconiinster, 147 

 Lincoln, 149 

 Liverpool, 61, 73, 305 

 Loughrea, 23, 99 

 jNIaidstone, 61 

 Malton, 233 

 Manchester, 140 

 Market Harborough, 28 

 Monmouth, 304, 305 

 Moreton-in-Marsh, 130 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 282 

 Newport Pagnell, 63 

 No Man's Land, 21 

 Norfolk, 284, 292, 295 

 Northampton, 35 

 Nottingham, 140 

 Paris, 45, 305 

 Pradoe, 280 

 Punchestown, 155, 207 

 Pytchley, 268, 287 

 Rochester, 154, 278-279 

 Romford, 63 



Roxburgh, Co. Galway, 23 note 

 Rugby Hunt, 270 

 St. Albans, 17 et seq., 83 

 Scotland, 2S6 

 Slough, 147 

 Somersetshire, 289 

 South Mimms, 281 

 Southsea, 152 

 Stratford-on-Avon, 43, 61 

 Swindon, 305 

 Tipperary, 99 

 Trim, 97 

 Tring, 69 

 Tunbridge, 154 

 Wallham Aljbey, 140 

 Ware, 50 note, 291 



Warwick, 105, 106, iifj, 140, 141, 

 270, 272 



Windsor, 63, 107, 122, 140 

 Wolverhampton, 147 

 Worcester, 103, 107, no, 141, 147, 302 

 Yorkshire, 285, 294, 295, 296 



Steeplechases, Military: " Fir>t on Re- 

 cord," 5, 271; first St. Albans, 22; 

 blind horse ridden in, 24 ; officers' 

 great interest in steeplechasing, 249 ; 

 meetings at the present time, 250 ; 

 present and early riding of officers con- 

 sidered, //'. /early Newcastle-upon-Tyne 

 meeting, 251 ; soldiers and sport, 266; 

 steeplechases in the Crimea, 266-267 ; 

 Reading, 270; moonlight match, 271. 

 See also Grand Military Steeplechases. 



Steeplechasing, origin, 3-4; benefits 

 trade, 53 ; opposition of farmers to, 

 53 ; relation to hunting, 4, 9, 10, 18, 

 56, 198 ; abuses of, 83, 123, 125 ; 

 decadence, 197 ; farmers' patronage 

 sought, 198 ; a favourite amusement in 

 1820, 277 



" Steeple hunting," 8 



Tattersall's, 26, 29, 131 

 Thames, a match in the, 24 

 Trainer, made drunk by a rival, 19 

 Training Stables. — Ascot, 18 ; Brocket 

 Hall Park, 18; Bulstrode Park, 19 

 note; Ciorhambury Park, St. Albans, 

 19 ; Danebury, 20 ; Goodwood, 20 

 " Tumble-down " races, 12, 13 

 Turf Club, appealed to, 6 



Vevers, Mr. William, biography of, 304 



Walking in a steeplechase, 296 



Wall introduced at Liverpool for Irish 



horses, 89 

 Warwick, Grand Military meeting at, 



262, 266, 272 

 Welshers at the National Hunt meeting, 



202 

 Whyte, John, founder of the Bayswater 



Hippodrome, 9 



YOKK and .-Vinsty tragedy. The, 215 



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