Related article: ham, two teams as well known
for good play as, say, Rugby
and The Old Cantabs. The former
won with a tremendous score of
i6 to 6^.
Polo at Bedford, St. Neots and
in Torks. — One of the most satis-
factory features of the Autumn
season to those interested in
County Polo was the success of
these two clubs. Not only has
the play been good but the interest
excited in the neighbourhood has
been very great. Thus in the
first match at Bedford between
the Oakley and Cambridgeshire
Hunts, both sides of the ground
on the Ampthill road were lined
with carriages, foot people, and
even a few motor cars. The
Cambridgeshire won the match,
but both sides played well. The
enthusiastic Holderness Club has
had too a most successful season,
winning seven matches and only
losing two. This club should take
a high place in County Polo.
Hunting— The Cottesmore. —
The doings of this pack have now
a threefold interest. First and
foremost for those who are mem-
bers of the hunt, for they have a
new master, Mr. Evan Hanbury,
a new huntsman, Arthur Buy Cheap Topiramate Thatcher,
and in part at least a new pack of
hounds, for Captain F. Johnstone's
doghounds were bought at the close
of last season. Thus Yorkshire
men have an interest in the doings
of the hounds, for part of the pack
was made in one of the roughest
countries in the county of broad
acres. Lastly, Essex men will
watch the career of the huntsman
in whose gifts they had learned to
believe. Let me give them in
brief the story of a morning with
the Cottesmore. A fine Septem-
ber morning with a soft grey haze
hanging in the rides of Wardley
Wood whence later foxes may
go in several directions, and can
hardly take a wrong line. Sir
Arthur Fludyer, the owner of the
covert, is looking on. A moment's
silence and then the whole wood
rang again with the eager chorus
of hounds. The pack have music
and there is a scent. Now hounds
are driving through the under-
growth and two or three foxes are
afoot. It is an old stager that set
his mark straight for Beamont
Chase, and once in the open there
is a scent. They ought to be
stopped but it takes some doing,
yet the whippers-in are equal to
the occasion, and eventually the
truants are brought back to take
part in the tamer but more useful
task of teaching the cubs to fly.
Ayston has a litter too and they
should be true Leicestershire foxes
by the way they break at once. It
always seems to me that foxes
in the Shires even in their
youth recognise the advantage
of promptness. Two were killed.
We have time to think how very
hot it is and how glad we should
be of Order Topiramate Online rain and so home to break-
fast.
The Bicester.— This hunt are
among the most fortunate in
England. They have perhaps as
little wire and as much sport over
a rideable country as any pack in
England. Since Mr. John Lons-
dale and Cox have had the pack
great pains have been taken to
build on the excellent foundations
laid years ago by Lord Chesham
and Dick Stovin. It is well known
to have a great deal of Lord
Henry Bentinck's Blankney blood.
A friend well known to readers of
Baily told the writer lately, after
a visit to the kennels, that the
Bicester Topiramate Online Contest is making his
mark as a sire. This hound was
crippled about two years ago by
a bite. Fortunately he had al-
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ready had time to make a name
for himself Purchase Topiramate as a worker, and he is
now doing good work at the stud
both at home and outside.
Lord Jersey's coverts at Mid-
dleton proved the scene of the
opening operations in the Bices-
ter country, where it is needless
to say cubs were very plentiful.
Mr. Heywood - Lonsdale allowed
hounds to return to kennel
when a leash of cubs had been
accounted for. At Shelswell,
or rather Spilsmore, on Sep-
tember 5th, they again found
cubs strongly in evidence, and
getting one away from Pond
Head Wood to a drain at Mrs.
Waters' farmstead, got him out
and killed him, the other occu-
pants of the refuge being a hedge-
hog and a Buy Topiramate Online couple of rabbits.
From Hardwicke Heath they also
acquitted themselves well, and
from Stratton Coppice on Sep-
tember nth secured a brace of
cubs, and a badger at Cotmore
Covert as the result of their exer-
tions.
The Oakley Hoaiid8.-^Cub-
hunting was commenced in the
Oakley country on August 27th,
scarcely as early as last year,
owing to the lateness of the har-
vest. Mr. P. A. O. Whitaker,
who, it will be remembered, re-
linquished his duties as master
last season in order to take his
place with his Yeomanry to serve
his Queen and country, had un-
fortunately been invalided home
from the front, but was able to
carry the horn with his customary
dash and zeal, finding too that
even if he could not commence
his raids amongst the cubs as
early as usual, he had a decided
advantage for his hounds and
horses this year owing to the rain-
fall which marked the month of
August. Radford Bridge at 4.30
was the opening fixture, and a
very fair morning's work was
done ; for getting amongst a litter
of cubs in the Ashbeds, hounds
got away on good terms with one,
and raced him across the park to
ground in the main earth. Mr.
Whitaker then trotted on to the
osier beds below the village, and
soon had his pack busy with
another litter, and after bustling
them for a bit, slipped away with
one by the brickyards to Freers
Wood, crowning their first morn-
ing with blood, the young hounds
entering well. Generic Topiramate
August 28th saw them at Put-
noe, again a rare show of cubs,
and after a useful morning's work,
marked one to ground at Golding-
ton, where two mornings later
they were fortunate Buy Topiramate in killing
another cub, having commenced
their work amongst Purchase Topiramate Online a litter at
Renhold. Another very sporting
morning was enjoyed at Moulsoe
on September loth, when Mr.
Donald Fraser's coverts were re-
quisitioned. It is true it was all
too short for many; but the
master Order Topiramate did the wise thing, and
returned to kennel when they
tasted their first blood.
The Whaddon Chase. -Mr
Selby Lowndes commenced ope-
rations considerably earlier than
usual this year, August 30th wit-