In the following year Mr. G. Barclay acted as honorary secretary, and the races were again highly successful with a plentiful supply of runners. Mr. R. M'Farlane took first honours in the race for heavy weights on Samuel, Mr. T. L. Arnott's His Lordship, ridden by Mr. John Ferguson (the present well-known trainer), being the winner among the light weights. Mr. W. Taylor won the closing event on his own horse Clown. Each of the three races of 1896 was keenly contested, Mr. Boyd Cuninghame being first in the heavy weights on Grandee, and that good horse Fusee III., owned and ridden by Mr. John Wallace, took the light-weight event. The last race fell to Mr. G. L. M'Kenzie on Meta. In the next year Mr. Boyd Cuninghame again won the heavy-weight race on Ironclad, and Mr. R. G. Eaglesham beat a big field in the light weights on a little grey mare called 6o The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. Harmony. Mr. John Wallace had another win on Fusee III. in the concluding event. In 1898 Mr. T. G. Wotherspoon undertook the secretarial work, and a good meeting resulted. Captain Foster Swetenham won the first race (heavy weights) on Thistle, and Mr. Kenneth Connal landed Mr. John Hoggan's Torpedo, the winner, in the light weights. For the third time Mr. John Wallace scored on Fusee III., which took the last race, as in the previous year. In 1899 Mr. Boyd Cuninghame finished ahead in the first race on Red King. Mr. G. L. Wilson's Nubian won the second event, and the concluding event went once again to Mr. John Wallace on Fusee III. The opening event in 1901 saw Mr. W. B. Donaldson to the fore on The Jew, and Mr. John A. Holms won the light-weight race on Klon- dyke, Mr. G. L. Wilson being again successful on Nubian in the last race.