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per annum, in England and Wales alone, on actual 

 hunting-. Adding the sums spent in Scotland and 

 Ireland, the writer raises the 'grand total to three 

 millions three hundred and fifty thousand pounds a 

 year, in round figures.' " 



" Pe7idragon " of the " Referee " on SteeplecJiasing in 

 Australia. — Australian steeplechasing seems to have 

 surprised our visitor, and he says : — " Many readers 

 may be astonished to learn that in a steeplechase trial, 

 England v. Australia, the old country would stand a 

 good chance of coming off second best ; she would be 

 in much the same position as Hanlon was after his 

 two races on the Paramatta. I was astonished at the 

 jumps shown me at Caulfield, but still more astonished 

 when I went to Flemington, the Newmarket of Victoria, 

 or rather the Newmarket-cum-Liverpool, seeing that it 

 is the head-quarters of both flat-racing and steeple- 

 chasing in the colony." After describing the courses, 

 he asks : — " How many of the steeplechasers of 

 Kempton, and Sandown, and the Grand National 

 Hunt would face such barriers ? And in Australian 

 steeplechasing there is no steadying ; they gallop 

 straight away, and there is no more hesitation or 

 delay than though they were flat-racing. ... It 

 is no exaggeration whatever to say that for height and 

 solidity we have nothing like these fences in England, 

 or even in Ireland. They are to my eyes — and I have 



