78 The Arab Horse 



with his equipment, yet Maidan carried 

 him for twelve years in campaigns 

 through the mountainous regions of India 

 and Afghanistan, until the soldier was 

 killed in the fight at Kandahar, at the 

 end of the famous forced march of Lord 

 Roberts's Army from Cabul, three hun- 

 dred miles distant. After carrying 

 Brownlow for ten years Maidan won the 

 Ganges Hog Hunt Cup, and also a four 

 mile steeplechase across difficult country. 

 At seventeen years of age, on the death of 

 Brownlow, Maidan was bought by Lord 

 Airlie who again put him to racing where 

 he won a number of races both on the 

 flat and steeplechases. He was then sold 

 to Captain the Hon. Eustace Vesey, who 

 bought him to take to England. Leaving 

 India on the troopship Jumna Maidan 

 got as far as Suez, where the ship met 

 the expedition going to the relief of 

 Suakim, where Osman Digna was har- 

 rassing the garrison, and was pressed into 

 service as a transport for troops to Mas- 

 sowah, near the lower end of the Red Sea. 



