SPORTING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1276, 16 February 1883, Page 2

SPORTING.

Talking of awkward jumps in steeplechase courses, a friend tells Rapier (Dramatic News), that he was at Lincoln one day—some ten years since now—and saw a steeple chase over several ugly jumps—one in particular. a good, stiff, apparently unbreakable rail hefore a very wide brook with rotten banks, the jump being out of plough. Few of the starters earns to this leap, grief having waylaid them earlier in the race, but those who lived to it got over in one or two cases with an awkward scramble. Riding about the course was the Prince of Wales, then the guest at some great house in the neighborhood, and he watched what writers usually call the “ negotiation ” of this obstacle with much interest. " That’s what you call a good jump, I suppose, isn't it the prince asked. “ Yes sir, a very good jump indeed,” someone answered, whereupon H.R.R. turned his hone's head to the rail, went at it, and landed tn the neatest possible style on the other side.

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A coKRxsroNDXNT writes to the "Madras Mail";—"I take the following from th* last number received ef the 'lllustrated Sporting and Dramatic News,' viz , of Nov. 11: A few yean ago a young Australian horse ran away fa one of the Madras steeple. chases, and closed the lane, which was 24 feet wide, and 3 foot wall on the taking off side and another fl inches higher on the landing tide. That was eomething like a jump, hut ean any of your eporting readers recall anything concerning it! 1 have been fa Madras a few years, and I never heard this 'eoiker.' Noroan I cal! to mind any lane fa or about our ateepleohase course answering at all to the description given to the above. " No Corker " writes" Regarding an Australian horse jumping 24 feet at the Madraa races, I saw a white or light grey horse, which I believe bolonged to the Hon R. Davidson, C.S., jump the double clear. The two walls must have been 24 feet apart. As far a* I remember, the rider was thrown at the next jump. This was fa the month of December 'B5 or January ’66."