2 
Betting : 2 to 1 against Cook, 4 to 1 against Prince Arthur, 5 to 1 against 
Bonaventure, and 10 to 1 against any other. Parker, Bonaventure, and Cook 
ran in the order named for half the distance, when Cook took the lead, but was 
closely pressed by Bonaventure up the straight. The favourite, however, had the 
best of a good finish, and won by a head; a bad third. Parker was fourth, and 
Paul last. 
4.5©. — THE MOTAIi AlTILIiEIIl LimT4¥EIMT 
STEEPLE-CHASE of 49 sovs., with 10 sovs. to the second, 
and 5 sovs. to the third 11 st. 71b. each. Two miles and-a-half. 
Mr. S. W. Slacker’s br m Ennis couth y, 6 yrs. 11 st. 7 lb. 
Mr. C. 0. Head 1 
Major W. H. Darby’s br g Puince Arthur, 6 yrs. 11 st. 7 lb. 
Capt. A. King 2 
Capt. H. G. Ricardo’s b g Playboy, 6 yrs. 11 st. 7 lb. 
Mr. W. F. O’Conner 3 
Mr. S. W. Blacker’s Kathleen, aged, list. 7 lb.Owner 0 
Mr. G. C. Fordyce-Buchan’s Jorrocks, 5 yrs, 11 st. 7 lb. ...Owner 0 
Capt. F. C. Johnson’s Longtail, aged, 11 st. 7 lb.Owner 0 
Capt. Morley Knight’s Moonlight, aged, 11 st. 7 lb. Capt. Lawless 0 
Betting : 3 to 1 each against Playboy and Jorrocks, 4 to 1 against Prince 
Arthur, 8 to 1 against Enniscorthy, and 10 to 1 against any other. 
Prince Arthur, attended by Playboy and Enniscorthy, held the command until 
the last water, where the latter took the lead, and drawing away as they entered 
the straight Enniscorthy won by six lengths from Prine Arthur, who was four 
lengths in front of Playboy. Kathleen was fourth and Moonlight last. Jorrocks 
refused. 
There were also three open races, each of which brought out four or five run¬ 
ners. 
Edinburgh. 
Major A. H. C. Piiillpotts, R.A., writes 
As none of the correspondents on the subject of bedding down cavalry horses say 
anything regarding Germany, I may mention that when visiting the large Military 
Riding Establishment at Hanover, about three years ago, which I did by the 
courtesy of General von Krozick who commanded the school, I noticed that all 
the horses—about 200—used for the instruction of officers and non-commissioned 
officers, stood on “ matress beds ” as they call them. The bedding simply being 
allowed to remain for a month or so under the horses without being removed, 
fresh straw being periodically added. The stables were remarkably clean, sweet 
and neat, and the frogs of the horses, several of whose feet I picked up, were in 
perfect order. 
The stablemen, who evidently had plenty to do keeping the stables in order, 
were neatly dressed in clean stable dress with a cotton blouse on. 
No men were to be seen in the dirty, nondescript rags so familiar in the 
British troop and battery stables. The saddlery not in use was hung up clean 
and neat, on pegs behind the horses. 
The daily allowance of straw was rather less than with us, and I understood 
that this method of bedding down the horses was neither new nor experimental. 
