I oo In Scarlet and Silk 



The first Windsor run was from Skindle's 

 to Eton, l)y a zigzag line of about six miles, 

 and the field numbered no less than sixty, 

 including many officers of the Household 

 Brigade. It was a grand spin, and plenty of 

 grief resulted, the Master getting a fall at 

 the fence l)efore the check. Lord Charles 

 Ker was the worst sufferer on the list of the 

 wounded, as Northern Light, the steeplechase 

 horse, gave him a very bad cropper indeed. 



A notable run about this time was one in 

 the Woolwich district, upon an occasion when 

 the officers of the 9th Lancers (stationed at 

 Hounslow) were the guests of the R.A. 

 There was a lot of jealous riding that day, 

 and when one finds, in the list of those 

 following the pack, such well-known names 

 as, inter alia, "Sugar" Candy, Lord "Bill" 

 Beresford, Grant, Dick Clayton (killed at 

 polo in Lidia), M'Calmont — all of the 9th 

 Lancers — Lynes, Thacker, and " Daddy " 

 Annesley, of the Gunners, such a state of 

 things is hardly astonishing. 



That season, during two gallops in the 



