. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . own Hoby bullockfences. May I live to carry age and be as quick and hard asCol. Forester, who was about the top o the hunt at thispoint. Forrard ! you beauties, forrard ! as they chatter gailythrough the very fences that brought such grief in the famous Bobtail run of 68 (53 minutes without a check, and a kill inthe open). Su- Frederick Johnstone on his little brown horseclears the first oxer in the true style that no man in Englandcan beat; the hog-ma
. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . own Hoby bullockfences. May I live to carry age and be as quick and hard asCol. Forester, who was about the top o the hunt at thispoint. Forrard ! you beauties, forrard ! as they chatter gailythrough the very fences that brought such grief in the famous Bobtail run of 68 (53 minutes without a check, and a kill inthe open). Su- Frederick Johnstone on his little brown horseclears the first oxer in the true style that no man in Englandcan beat; the hog-maned chestnut is over close beside him; theMaster knees the rail bej^ond and comes down a cracker; whileLord Grey de Wilton rolls over close after him, his brilliantchestnut having the misfortune to pitch just where the post hadbeen knocked out. Crash ! bang ! on the right, like the burstingof a 68-pounder, comes Macbride; the dark red chestnut is a bitblown, but he has got his forelegs over and staggers up again todo the same at the next fence. Of the rest, some get over, someget down, while others thrust through the holes that have beau. 1870—71.] THE PRINCE OF WALES AT MELTON. 25 made for them. Col. Ellis is well up ; but the Princes horse feelsthe pace terribly, shows a latent temper of which he has givensigns before, sticks his head out, and refuses obstinately. Theugliest line in the three counties would not stop Captain Riddell;but the horse of one equally hard has broken do\ra some timeago, and Mr. Chapman is leading him along and cursing hisluck a mile behind. Two more storming oxers in successionstill further thin the field; the forty-acre grazing grounds ofridge-and-furrow call for steeplechasing condition ; and as theyenter the Hoby and Ragdale road, the company is choice it due to failing breath or shaken legs that one noticedthree instances of doubling an oxer ? A hundred yards down theroad the leading rank pull up short for half a moment, thensharp th
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