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R.A. Games’ Fund. 
The Annual consideration of the R.A. Games’ Fund will be taken after those of 
the R.A. Institution and Charities at the Royal United Service Institution on 
Friday, 11th June, 1897. The hour will be about 4 p.m. The Committee of 
the Games’ Fund intend to ask the Meeting- to allow them to give each year that 
they think fit a grant to the Regimental Point-to-Point Races’ Committee for the 
provision of a small prize to the winner of each regimental race at that meeting. 
The Games’ Fund Committee hope there will be a good attendance of sub¬ 
scribers interested in the Point-to-Point Races and think that in extending the 
benefits of the Fund as they ask they are doing their best to encourage cross 
country riding in the Regiment. 
AEHERSMOT. 
ROYAL ARTILLERY STEEPLE-CHASES. 
Saturday, 24th April. 1897. 
These Races were again held at Aldershot and were attended by the greatest 
number of officers and their guests ever known. The weather, though fine, might 
have been more genial as the N.E. wind made both the road and the enclosure 
hill uncomfortable. Every race brought out a large field and, except that Major 
Goulburn broke bis collar bone in the Race for the Gold Cup, the meeting was a 
great success. 
Results:— 
THE ROYAL ARTILLERY Y^IGHT-WEICtllT STEEPLE¬ 
CHASE of 50 sovs., with 10 to the second and 5 to the third. Two 
miles and five furlongs. 
Mr. W. Elwes’s No Name, 6 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb. Mr. E. J. R. Peel 1 
Captain H. M. Ferrar’s Rockfield, 5 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb. Owner 2 
Captain W. F. Wing’s Seaforth II., 6 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb... Owner 8 
Mr. J. F. Lamont’s High House, 5 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb. Owner 4 
Mr. J. A. Hobson’s Nimrod, aged, 11 st. 7 lb. Owner 5 
Mr. H. Phillips’s Starlight, 6 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb. Owner 0 
Capt. A. C. Connal’s The Cratur, 5 yrs., 11 st. 7 lb. Capt. Bidgood 0 
Mr. R. F. Courage’s Dungarvan, aged, 11 st. 7 lb. (car. 11 sfc. 
7 lb.). Owner 0 
Betting : 5 to 2 each agst. No Name and The Cratur, and 5 to 1 each agst. 
Rockfield, Nimrod, or any other. 
The Cratur led from No Name and Nimrod, with Starlight next, for a mile 
and a half, when No Name drew to the front and won by thirty lengths; a bad 
third. 
THE ROYAL ARTILLERY WELTER STEEPLE CHASE 
of 50 sovs. to the winner, 10 to the second, and 5 to the third. Two miles 
and five furlongs. 
Capt. H. L. Powell’s The Priest, aged, 18 st. 7 lb. Capt. Wing 1 
Mr. G. Stanley’s The General, aged, 13 st. 7 lb. Owner 2 
Mr. H. Bamsden’s Yorkey, aged, 13 st. 7 lb. Mr. G. Gillson 3 
Mr. H. T. Hildyard’s Topsy, aged, 13 st. 7 lb. Owner 4 
Mr. J. C. A. Hankey’s Jinny, aged, 13 st. 7 lb. .Owner 5 
Mr. M. R. F. Courage’s Ballyhooley, aged, 13 st. 7 lb....O wner 6 
Capt. R. W. Breeks’s Banshee, aged, 13 st. 7 lb. Mr. Crockett 0 
Mr. J. A. Hobson’s Siddington II., aged, 13 st. 7 lb. Owner 0 
Betting : 2 to 1 agst. Yorkey, 3 to 1 agst. The Priest, 7 to 2 agst. The General, 
and 4 to 1 agst. Jinny. 
