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In fact, it is the exception when another than an Irish-bred horse annexes the blue riband of steeplechasing. Closely allied to horse-racing is fox-hunting, and fox-hunting, as well as the hunting of the stag and of the hare, has flourished exceedingly in Ireland for a long time past. A great deal of needed employment is one of the results.
Arrived there, if the fox does get away if no ambitious youngster heads him back if no steeplechasing lot ride over the scent and before the hounds, to the destruction of sport and the master's temper why then you will see a fiery charge at fences that will do your heart good.
He broke his neck by jumping off his horse when riding towards or from the battlefield, did he not? and now I propose to follow his honoured example, on the battlefield, if possible, or if not, in steeplechasing."
He was no orator, and so he drank off his wine to the health of the company." "Steeplechasing" followed, for which Mr. Coalman of St. Albans returned thanks, assuring the company that it answered his purpose remarkably well. Then the Vice gave the "Chair," and the Chair gave the "Vice"; and by way of a finale, Mr. Badchild proposed the game of "Chicken-hazard," observing in a whisper to Mr.
To the regret of a very wide circle, the "loud, joyful and steeplechasing Lord " the late Lord William Beresford alluded to by Ali Baba, died in England in 1900.
The trouble came, he explained, from a fall he had received the year before steeplechasing. He had not before spoken of it, as he did not wish to distress her. The oculists he had consulted gave him no hope. He would end it, he declared, in the gun-room. Jeanne was thoroughly alarmed.
None of us was to be outdone in politeness by Penny; and all rushed to the coveted handles so as to be first in shutting the remaining windows. The element of competition and the steeplechasing methods necessary, if we were to surmount the intervening desks, made it all rather exciting. Several boys, converging from different directions, arrived at the handles at the same time.
When it is remembered that the Waterloo Cup is to coursing what the Liverpool Grand National is to steeplechasing, or the Epsom Derby to flat racing, the merit of this triple performance will at once be apparent. Compared with the sports in which horse and hound participate, all other outdoor pastimes in Ireland take rather a minor place. Still, the Irishman's love of sport is diversified.
It stretched northward in a great ellipse, and then trended north-west and ended up roughly where is now the Triangle, at the west end of St. Quintin Avenue. It was used for both flat racing and steeplechasing, and the steeplechase course was more than two miles in length.
'Is it steeplechasing ye are, or what fool's game is it ye are playing? demanded Sergeant O'Brien, while the rest shrieked with laughter. 'He he's my prisoner, panted Ken. 'And and, sergeant, did Norton get back? 'He did. Come along wid ye, and make your report to the colonel. Colonel Conway, who had been on foot all night, was taking a few minutes' much needed rest in a rough dug-out.
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