Photo, by H. R. Sherlorn Newmarket. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Colonel Dudley Sampson Return to India Bombay A Free Show 

 Poona Colonel Morton and the I4th Hussars The lyth Lancers 

 General Wardropp Calcutta Horsebreaking in a Class and in a Public 

 Performance Causes of Success Learning as I went on Horse Taming 

 and Horsebreaking Show at Simla Lord and Lady Dufiferin Lord 

 Roberts The Duke of Bedford Sir George White Mr Rudyard 

 Kipling * The Guides ' Hyderabad and its Native Noblemen 

 Improvements in Horsebreaking Mr Jimmy M'Leod and Britomarte 

 Racing ' The Treasure.' 



ON the Derby day of 1885, I strolled as usual through the 

 Epsom Paddock to see the horses and to meet old 

 friends and acquaintances, who have a way of turning up at 

 that famous rendezvous, as unexpected as it is pleasant. 

 Among others whom I saw was Colonel Dudley Sampson, 

 who was once a famous gentleman rider in India, and who 

 has since developed into a country gentlemen and a writer of 

 Unionist songs. We fell into a conversation which naturally 



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