252 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1825 to 



The Hunt Club Stakes. 



Mr. J. H. Campbell's b. g. Somerset 1 1 



Mr. Bourke's b. g. Sir Walter 2 2 



Lord Paget's b. g 3 3 



Hurdle Race. 



Capt. Delme's c. g. Reprobate 1 1 



Hon. R. A. Arundell's Tatterdemalion ... (Lord Vaux) 2 dist. 



Five others started. 



ii. h. races, " At the H. H. races on Tiehborne 

 April 26th. Down, Mr. Ewen's chesnut horse 

 Norman won the Cup. The race for the 

 piece of plate, given by Mr. Onslow, did not 

 at first fill. Mr. Onslow then said it should 

 be given to be run for by any six horses that 

 should start for it by a given time. Six 

 started, and showed tolerably good sport ; the 

 second heat was won by only half a neck by 

 Mr. Ewen's chesnut horse, the winner of the 

 Cup. Four horses then started for a sweep- 

 stakes — Gentlemen riders — which was well 

 contested, and won by Mr. Frederick Yates's 

 brown horse, beating Mr. Onslow's, Lord 

 Paget's, and Mr. Nicholson's horses." — Hants 

 Chronicle. 



In comparison with the number of 



Cricket, 



from matches played at the latter end of 



' the last century, and with those that 

 have taken place during the last twenty years, 

 the game at this time appeared to decline in 

 the county, and, from want of encourage- 



