362 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1815 tq 



TheH. h. The jj jj races were held on 



races, 



April 19th, Abbotstone Down. 



1861. 



Hurdle Race of 3 sovs. each, and 10 added. 



Mr. R. Combes' Pugilist ... (Mr. W. Pearse) I I 



Mr. Starkey's Niinrod . 



Mr. Arthur Yates's Remus (Owner) 



The Farmers' Cub. 



Mr. G. Judd's Reynard (Mr. Budd) I 1 



BeatiDg Mr. Hetherington's Calema and five others. 



The Hunters' Stakes. 



Mr. R. Combe's Pugilist (Owner) 1 



Mr. William Pearse's Beverley..... (Owner) 2 



Three others started. 



A Sweepstakes and the Scurry were both won by Mr. W. Pearse's 



Beverley. 



Runs in 1861. " Tlie N " F * H * met at Picket Post, 



The and bad a fine run with their second 



Feb. 26th, fox ; found at Burley Anderwood, 

 Po st. Pick ' et and w ent away to Vinny Ridge, 

 through Gillet's Enclosure, by Mark 

 Ash back to Burley, and, strange to say, for 

 three successive times he ran this same ring ; 

 the third time he broke away through Gillet 

 over a boggy bottom by Bank, to Hunt Hill 

 Enclosure, where, after one hour and twenty 

 minutes' hard running, without a check after 

 a regular race, the hounds killed him. Seven 

 only saw the end of this run — viz. Captain 

 Morant (the master), Captain M. Powell, Cap- 



