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Lodge took them, and hunted them until 



1834. 



„ ,. . " This meeting took place on 



Hambleclon ° J- 



Hunt races, Thursday, May 1st, and was un- 



Mav, 1823. i ti 



commonly well attended, several 

 handsome equipages being on the course. The 

 Farmers' Cup, given by the members of the 

 Hunt, was won at three heats by Mr. Tidier' s 

 horse, beating six others. The Hunters' Stakes, 

 12st. each, gentlemen riders, were won at three 

 heats by Captain Shirreff's brown horse Con- 

 tract, beating nine others. Mr. Apperley, who 

 rode the winner, received a severe fall just after 

 he passed the ending-post in the second heat, 

 by coining in contact with a cart-horse. Though 

 considerably bruised, he was able to win the 

 next heat," — Sporting Magazine, p. 111. 



"A fine stag-hunt took place in 

 t S hSr tia the New Forest in this month. A 

 Forest, great number of sportsmen met at 



Mark way Bridge, with the keepers 

 of the Forest in their liveries, and their hounds, 

 to hunt a stag well known by the farmers in 

 the neighbourhood of Burley as a trespasser. 

 He was roused at Vinny Ridge, crossed the 

 Salisbury-road towards Whiteparish, turned 

 back through Landford, took to Landford 

 water, and ran up to Hampworth, where the 



