On that course there were nine obstacles: the brook; a barrier nearly five feet high just in front of the pavilion; a dry ditch; a water-jump; an incline; an Irish bank (one of the most difficult obstacles), consisting of a bank with brushwood on top, beyond which there was another ditch which the horses could not see, so that they had to clear both obstacles or come to grief; then two more water-jumps, and another dry ditch.
En aquella elipse había nueve obstáculos: un arroyo, una valla de dos arquinas de alto ante la tribuna, una zanja seca, otra con agua, un montículo de elevada pendiente y un obstáculo de doble salto, consistente en una valla cubierta de ramaje seco tras la cual había una zanja, invisible para el caballo, que debía saltar, valla y zanja de una vez, so pena de matarse.