_ Several of the horses which took part in the" Hunt" at the Opaki yesterday were seriously injured. In the first run one of Mr Bidwill's horses sustained a severe laceration of the flesh, and Mr T, H.Thompson's Karatea, which was following two other horses, came into violent contact with a fenco through be ing unable to see it and was so much hart that it is feared it will have to bo destroyed. A horse belonging to Mr. A. Walker had his shoulder dislocated and a numbur ot others were more or less in* jured.
