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given nor expected, and there is only one spirit which per- 

 vades the whole of that galloping, hustling throng — ^* every 

 man for himself, and if you can't get on, get out of the 

 way, or take your chance of being knocked over." In our 

 cramped Ballygunge Country both man and horse need 

 to be as handy and as active as cats, and to have as many 

 eyes as the intending purchaser of a horse ! ! Times there 

 are, of course, when owing to various circumstances the 

 field gets strung out and there is plenty of room, and 

 little discomfort, but, as a rule, there are at least a dozen of 

 them left well in it, even after two-thirds of the journey has 

 been accomplished, and there is no " let-up" to the fight. 

 Have we not many a time seen the first flight come into 

 sight in a compact mass in a cloud of dust and charge the 

 last few obstacles in three solid troops ; and have we not 

 also, ere now, seen this same thrusting, galloping mass 

 over-shoot the paper at the very last moment and let up 

 some patient, toiling tortoise, who had long ago given up 

 hope of ever seeing the faces of the leaders again, and who 

 was a hundred yards or more behind, and apparently hope- 

 lessly out of the hunt? Such is this race and such some 

 of its risks and anxieties. 



The first Paperchase Cup was run in March 1874, 

 and was won by the late Mr. E. T. Roberts on Red Deer. 

 Mr. Roberts was then a hard-riding solicitor, and subse- 

 quently became head partner in the firm of Messrs. 

 Roberts Morgan & Co. He then sold out and went home 

 to eat his dinners and get called to the Bar ; and it is 

 probable that as a member of the higher branch of the 

 profession that the few who were his contemporaries, and 

 who are still in Calcutta, best remember him. Red Deer 

 was only a 14- 1. Mr. Otto Eck, who is still in Calcutta, all 

 but won this Cup, as he was leading close to the finish, but 

 his horse ran out at a fence, and let up Red Deer who had 

 previously held a big lead but had likewise refused, and 



