Cord, too, scowled, and followed Vronsky almost at a trot.

There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race.

The race course was a large three-mile ring of the form of an ellipse in front of the pavilion.

On this course nine obstacles had been arranged: the stream, a big and solid barrier five feet high, just before the pavilion, a dry ditch, a ditch full of water, a precipitous slope, an Irish barricade (one of the most difficult obstacles, consisting of a mound fenced with brushwood, beyond which was a ditch out of sight for the horses, so that the horse had to clear both obstacles or might be killed); then two more ditches filled with water, and one dry one; and the end of the race was just facing the pavilion.