SOME RECORDS AND COMPARISONS — 229 
on the Saturdays and Mondays of the First October, 
Second October, and Houghton weeks, motionless 
behind the fir belts of that favoured country, ruminat- 
ing, no doubt, upon the weights, acceptances, or odds 
of the great handicaps, but watching the flag of the 
driver over the turnips as keenly and closely as they 
do that of Mr. Coventry on the Heath. 
The Duke of Cambridge succeeds his friend, the 
late General Hall, at Six-Mile Bottom. Mr. Henry 
McCalmont has purchased the beautiful estate of 
Cheveley from the Duke of Rutland at a figure which 
goes far to reassure owners as to the rehabilita- 
tion of values in land, and where he can occupy the 
intervals between the victories of his horse Isinglass 
in manceuvring over almost the finest partridge 
ground in England. The well-known Chippenham 
Park estate, which disputes with Heveningham (Lord 
Huntingfield’s) the claim to be the birthplace of 
partridge-driving, is shared between its owner, Mr. 
Tharp, and his tenant, Mr. Warren De La Rue, who 
also rents Tudnam from Lord Bristol, whilst at Dul- 
lingham,, the great Captain Machell, still one of the 
surest shots as he was one of the best athletes of his 
day, gauges the style of his neighbours behind a belt 
with as shrewd a judgment as he would apply to the 
weights of a handicap or the form of a two-year-old. 
