ENCLOSED COURSING 117 



1886 



CHAMPION STAKES, at 25/. each, with 500/. added ; winner 



1,000/., second 400/. ; 64 subs. 



iVIr. 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 500/. added ; winner 



1,000/., second 400/. ; 64 subs. 



Mr. W. Reillyns (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 10/. los. each ; winner 600/., 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 — Gnlnare II. 



1889 



CHAMPION STAKES, at 10/. \os. each, with 400/. added; 

 winner 600/., second 200/. ; 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 



