ENCLOSED COURSING 117 



1886 



CHAMPION STAKES, at 25/1 each, with 5oo/. added ; winner 



i,ooo/., second 400!. ; 64 subs. 



Mr. T. Stone ns (Mr. L. Pilkington's) bk d Phoebus, by Coleraine 

 Diamond sister to Lady Hester, beat Mr. C. Hibbert ns r d Gay 

 City, by Paris Lady Glendyne. 



1887 



CHAMPION STAKES, at 25/. each, with 5oo/. added ; winner 

 i,ooo/., second 4oo/. ; 64 subs. 



Mr. W. Reilly ns (Mr. E. Dent's) Huic Halloa, by Jester- 

 Countess, beat Mr, R. F Gladstone's bk d Greater Scot, by Mac- 

 pherson Madge. 



1888 



CHAMPION STAKES, at io/. los. each ; winner 6oo/., second 

 200/. ; 64 subs. 



Mr. S. Handfordns (Mr. G. Hobbs's) bk d Holmby, by Clyto 

 High Opinion, beat Mr. H. G. Miller's bk d Mullingar, by 

 Misterton Gulnare II. 



1889 



CHAMPION STAKES, at io/. los. each, with 4oo/. added ; 



winner 6oo/., second 2oo/. ; 64 subs. 



Major H. Holmes's bk w d Puddletown, by Domino Bonniness, 

 beat Mr. A. Sydney's bk w d p Pilate Black, by Northern Express 

 sister to Petrarch. 



Haydock Park succeeded Gosforth Park, and with capital 

 management some good sport of its kind has been witnessed here 

 from time to time. Being in the midst of a coursing district, and 

 adjacent to such populous centres as Liverpool, Manchester, 

 Wigan, &c. &c., Haydock has hardly received that amount of 

 patronage from the public one would naturally expect. Many 

 stirring and striking associations attach to Haydock Park, 

 and Greentick, Fullerton, Herschel, and Gay City have all 

 tingled the blood of onlookers by their brilliant displays. 

 Fullerton first came out in the Lancashire enclosure, and 

 took people by storm in his succession of fine courses, though 

 one hammering after another over the adamantine surface, the 



