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In the spring, ere red coats and "leathers" are laid aside by the fox-hunting squire, there is the best of trout-fishing to be enjoyed in the Coln and Windrush streams dear to the heart of the accomplished expert with the "dry" fly. In spring, too, are the local hunt races at Oaksey and Sherston, at Moreton-in-the-Marsh and Andoversford.
Eastcourt, Crudwell, Oaksey, Brinkworth, Lea Schools such are some of Lord Bathurst's Friday meets; and the pen can hardly write fast enough in singing the praises of this country.
For when the hounds cross this country there are always "wigs on the green" in abundance; and in spite of barbed wire we may still sing with Horace, "Nec fortuitum spernere caespitem Leges sinebant," which, at the risk of offending all classical scholars, I must here translate: "Nor do the laws allow us to despise a chance tumble on the turf." Round Oaksey, too, is a rare galloping ground.
The best grass country round about, however, with the exception of the Crudwell and Oaksey district, rides decidedly deep. The enclosures are small and the fences rough and straggling. A clever, bold horse, with plenty of jumping power in his quarters and hocks, is essential.
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