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One of the oldest pieces of footage from an Irish point-to-point that exists within the British Pathé collection, covers the Kill Harriers fixture of 1925.
The hunt themselves cover the Waterford area, however no location is given as to where the fixture takes place, although its popularity is clear from the footage, with large crowds taking full advantage of courses topography to gain a good view of the action, courtesy of the large hill, on which the enclosures are based.
The undulating course sees the participants negotiate a number of banks which have had the hedges on them either removed in some cases, or lowered in others.
Most notably, this is the first of the point-to-point footage to feature riders in a form of silks as opposed to the traditional hunting attire had they had worn in the video footage of point-to-point meetings from the similar time period.
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