y^ FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



The hunt staff with Fred Earp, kennel huntsman, 

 formerly first whipper-in for fourteen seasons to 

 Tom Firr, rode about to keep the course, the scarlet 

 coats of the chase making a bright spot of colour 

 in the dazzling sunshine. As usual the card com- 

 prised four events, the best race being for Lady 

 Harrington's Cup. Perhaps the most attractive 

 feature of the programme is the Ladies' Race, which 

 finishes the day's sport and is always keenly con- 

 tested by the hard-riding Dianas of Nottinghamshire. 

 A start is made in the valley below the hill, and 

 the first fence jumped is to the left of the 

 saddling paddock. After that there is some up-hill 

 work, leaving Woodborough village on the left, 

 across red plough land, breasting the grass hill-side 

 to turn round a flag, up by Ploughmans Wood. 

 Travelling across the grass enclosures parallel with 

 the covert, the course comes over the hill-side, 

 down to the road where they jump in and out, 

 going away in the distant country of plough, up 

 hill nearly to Lambley Holt. Turning round a flag 

 the horses have good going on the grass down hill, 

 leaving Woodborough Gorse on the left, to finish 

 . ^ ^^^ by the grand stand. The 

 ^i>.S^SSt'i:. distance is about three 

 ~ - miles of excellent hunting 

 \ ^ ^jS^ $J^ country, much of it ridge 

 ' '■'-^- P-^ and furrow, and at one 



^^k4^.J^ time was the favourite 



kJj^^ Ime foxes took from 



^=^^>J Ploughmans Wood. 



, "7 . ,^~' The event for Ladv 



A point to point. . -^ 



Harrington's Cup attrac- 

 ted a field of fourteen, including Mr Fred Hardy's 

 Prince Victor which won last year, and now had to 

 put up a 7 lb. impost, increasing his burden to 



