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when they carried the hne into the open. There 

 was opportunity to note the good working quahties 

 of the pack, for they flew to the horn hke spirits, 

 characteristic of the Quorn blood which they in- 

 herit, such as Tom Firr bred for, all quickness and 

 activity. The field out were well mounted, for the 

 most part on first and second season hunters, being 

 a noted district for horse-breeding, and those that 

 have received their education over the stiff country 

 and deep going, are fit to take care of themselves 

 anywhere. Many of the farms in the Southwold 

 country are a thousand acres or more in extent, 

 sheep being the staple industry, it being said that 

 the fine churches for which the country is remark- 

 able, were built in the good times, when wool made 

 fortunes. 



The Earl of Harrington and the South Notts 

 Hunt Steeplechases 



The Earl of Harrington, in his thirtieth season 

 of mastership, hunts six days a week in Nottingham- 

 shire and Leicestershire, and moreover has a larger 

 number of hounds in kennel than any other hunt 

 in England, viz. eighty 

 couples. The South Notts 

 season finishes off with 

 popular point to point 

 races at Woodborough, 

 which is an excuse for 

 half the town of Notting- 

 ham to picnic in the open 

 and enjoy a day's sport 

 together. Last year — 

 March 20, 191 1 — on a morning like June, with a 

 cloudless blue sky and the wind in the east, the point 

 to point clashed with the opening day of the flat 



Near the Finish. 



