214 SPOUTING REMINISCENCES [1825 to 



each, open to all England. Owing to a fall of 

 snow in the night the start did not take place 

 till twelve o'clock. After weighing in South- 

 ampton, the jockeys were taken by the um- 

 pires to view the ground, which they were 

 enabled to do without going over it, the 

 whole line, which was over Stoneham flat, 

 lying parallel with the high road from Twy- 

 ford to Southampton ; the start being in a 

 field on Boyatt Farm, and the finish in a large 

 field at North Stoneham. Owing to the ex- 

 ertions of the umpires, Messrs. King and Cham- 

 berlayne, not a single horseman attempted to 

 ride any part of the course. The generality of 

 the jumps were bank and ditch, with fences on 

 the top, the ditches being wide and deep. The 

 following came to the post." — From Bell's Life. 



Mr. Hawthorn's Sailor (Mr. Powell) 1 



Mr. Robert Jessett's Montague (Mr. Jessett) 2 



Mr. Brett's Jim Crow (Mr. Oliver) 



Capt. Williamson's Bittern (Mr. G. Bayley) 



Mr. A. Dyson's William Tell (Owner) 



Mr. Thompson's Coxswain (Owner) 



March 22nd. A dinner was given by the gentle- 

 Dinner to men f t j ie Ted worth Hunt to Mr. 



Mr. Assheton 



Smith. Assheton Smith. Eighty-two gentle- 



men — thirty of whom were in hunting costume 

 — sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the Town 

 Hall, Andover, provided by Mr. Matcham, of 

 the White Hart. The chair was ably filled by 



