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... By Ashley Courtenay HOW easily in Spring do our thoughts turn to open moor land and the lonelier parts of the country, to remote coasts and empty hills where Nature can be seen at her best, unspoiled by man, and we can welcome Spring with a glad heart. Exmoor is such a place, so is the north coast of Somerset and Devon. There you will find glorious scenery, unaffected friendly people and ...

... By A. Croxton Smith LAST week's show of the Fox Terrier Club at Tattersalls brought together the usual keen collection of men and women that we expect on these occasions. This show is a movable feast, going about, as it does, from one place to another. Last year it was at Chelten ham in May. Sentiment dictates that much in terest should be taken in the pro ceedings of a club that has the proud ...

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... I oqr THE FAVOURITE GOBBLED An engraving from The Illustrated Sporting and OOJ Dramatic News of April 4, 1885, showing the runners at the third fence. This was the year when Roquefort won and the hot favourite, Tjoedone. belonging to Count Charles Kinsky, who had won on her in 1883, was nobbled going out on to the course with a hypodermic syringe. As a result she fell at the preliminary ...

... England Win their First International by a Goal --But Scotland have Cruel Luck in Failing to Score ENGLAND ATTACKING A forward movement ends up in the corner and Penn inside-right (nearest corner flag in white) finds himself the wrcng way round and unal centre without obstructing his immediate opponent B aimer, the Scottish left-half. A back to Tattersall nearest touch line) seems the only ...

... Steeplechasers, Ancient and Modern Nineteenth- Century Critics Early Fences Lack of Information The Stiffening of 1904 Modern Improvements An American View The Breeding of Jumpers By David Livingstone-Learmonth THE difficulty in comparing steeplechasers of to-day with the great ones of the past is that there is no standard of comparison. It is possible to see a modern rose growing beside an ...

... Some Fancied National Runners Who They Are and What They Have Done ROYAL DANIEL! An eight-year-old bay gelding by Roidore Sweet Honora, Mr. H. C. McNally's candidate was only beaten a head by Battleship in last year's race. This season he won a steeplechase at Navan, in November, and was short- headed by Herodotus, who received 37 lbs., at Nottingham, in the middle of February. Antipas, who ...

... How Grand National Fences Have Developed: A Record of the Changes from Our Own Files THE history of development of the Grand National fences to their present state is wrapped in much obscurity, and it is difficult to fix with certainty the year when they were first artificially strengthened. Bird, in his excellent Hundred Grand Nationals, makes little mention of the subject, and Messrs. ...

... THE NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLECHASE The runners taking the second fence in this four-mile steeplechase for amateur riders. In the lead is Mr. G. Hornung's Gaikster, ridden by Mr. H. Llewellyn, then come, from left to right, Sir Bill, Dashing Dick, Mr. R. Gore's Sentac (Mr. R. Petre), who was second; Wedgwood (Mr. W. Holman), who was third; and Free Flight, jumping. Mr. Black's light cap on the ...

... Sr-^5 /Accessories By DIANA The very last word in race-bags, from Swaine Adeney, 183, Piccadilly, is shown on the left. It c ntains a betting-book yet folds up practically flat. Another version with a very wide opening frame is seen above. Pick out yoia National favourite with these binoculars from Theodore Hamblin, 15, Wigmore Street. They have fine definition and brilliant illu mination, but ...