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on the pony holds a slight lead, and is coming 

 along as hard as he can ; then there are three 

 of our young friends, Brown, Jackson, and 

 Robinson ; then the steeplechase jockey in 

 pink, some lengths behind, nursing his horse 

 and looking out for opportunities. About a 

 field behind them comes our welter weight, 

 Jones, whose horse has been jumping fault- 

 lessly. The last jump is a stiff cut hedge — 

 about four feet high with a wide drain, about 

 seven feet wide, on the landing side — a fairly 

 formidable but quite fair fence, with a take off 

 from good sound grass. 



The leader quickens his pace without ap- 

 parent effort, and slightly increases his lead, 

 and our friends Brown, Jackson, and Robinson 

 immediately begin to bustle their horses, and as 

 is the way with the inexperienced in such cases, 

 they leave loose of their heads ; the consequence 

 is that Brown and Jackson come down, whilst 

 Robinson's mount half stops as he lands, and in 

 a second our steeplechase friend is alongside 

 him. Then up goes Robinson's whip, and flop, 

 flop, go his reins, and our friend in pink soon 



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