HUNTING APPOINTMENTS
H.H.—Monday, at Windmill Hill; Tuesday, Tichbourne Park; Thursday, Farleigh Park; Saturday, at Five Lanes, Holybourne—at ¼ to 11.
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Hambledon Hounds.—Monday, at Ditcham House; Wednesday, Allington; Friday, Stoke House; Saturday, at Westbury House—at ¼ to 11.
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The Hambledon Hounds met, at this early period of the season, and, contrary to the general rule, this early run proved most capital sport. The meet on Monday, as usual on the opening of the season, took place at Hambledon. The customary congratulations incidental to the meeting of old friends having been passed, the word was given for Brooks, and a young fox was started by the lady pack in the course of a few minutes, which set off in the direction of Stoke Woods. Upon being ‟talleyed” he jumped back, apparently into the wood, but dropped into and threaded a hedgerow, and then made off through Stoke Woods and Stockram to Soberton Down. He then turned back through Grenville, and was pressed straight through Brooks to Chidden, leaving the farmhouse to the right. He then ran round the wide rows on to Chidden Down, where he was seen sinking the hill to Combe. Through Henwood he bolted, across the meadows to Bereleigh, over the Petersfield road at Riplington, leaving Bordeaux on the right to Froxfield, and pointing for the Hangers. The country here got very heavy, and the fences too high for the horses that had long ago had enough. Leaving the Hangers to the right he went to Carter’s Coppice, where he turned short to the left, and his pursuers, determined to be better acquainted with him, raced for him from this point, ran him from scent to view, and picked him clean up in a pasture opposite Mr. Silvester’s. The time occupied was 1h 55m, and the distance from point to point about 16 miles.