Staff + College 

 <84 Point + to + Point + Races. k> 



Friday, March 20th, 1896. 



Stewards : 



T. C. GARTH, Esq., M.F.H. Colonel H. J. T. HILDYARD. 



Lord GEORGE PRATT (Judge). 



Colonel C. L. PEEL. F. V. ALLFREY, Esq. (Clerk of the Scales). 



Captain H. J. DU CANE (Starter). 



Captain A. E. SANDBACH. Mr. H. LANE. Mr. G. AUCKLAND. 



A long line of carriages, brakes, pony carts, horsemen, bicycles 

 and toilers on foot, wending their wet and muddy way from all 

 points of the compass towards Mosscroft Farm, proclaimed to the 

 Berkshire world that the 20th March was an important fixture : the 

 day of the Staff College Point to Point Races. 



Never was there a more desolate, disagreeable day, the bottom 

 was out of the clouds, and we feared out of the ground as well, and 

 the hearts of the occupants of the brakes sank as they realised that 

 the going would be heavy, but the falling soft. 



The card announced three events : — Light Weight, Heavy Weight 

 and a Farmers' Race. After an inspection of the course from the 

 brakes, and clear and full instructions from the Drag Secretary, the 

 riders in the L. W. mount and are ranged in line in the field 

 immediately south of the Memorial Stone, Marshfield House. 



LIGHT WEIGHT RACE. 

 For horses unconditionally the property of Light Weight 

 Officers at the Staff College, and that have been regularly ridden 

 with the Drag Hounds by their owners, or by Officers at the Staff 

 College. 



CATCH WEIGHTS over n st. 7 lbs. 



1. Maj. W. Douglas' (R. Scots) bl m Bessie, aged Owner 



2. Lt.-Col. C. R. Simpson's (Lincoln Regt.) b g The Rat (late 



Garryowen), aged . . . . . . • ■ • • • • • • Owner 



3. Capt. J. K. Tod's (7th Beng. Cav.) b g (Irish) Mike, aged . . Owner 



4. Capt. W. Ewbank's (R.E.) b m (Irish) Kathleen, aged .. .. Owner 



5. Capt. A. E. Sandbach's (R.E.) b m Zenobia, aged Owner 



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