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who was found to be the only one who had gone the correct 

 course. Mr. ''Tom" had had a fall with Commissioner, 

 lost his specs in the plough, spent quite a quarter of an 

 hour looking for them, and then he got aboard again and 

 rode home. It was, needless to say, a very well-received 

 victory, for every one felt that a right good sportsman 

 had got the Cup. In 1888, Lord William Beresford won 

 it on Diamond, beating Mr. Butler on Badminton and 

 Mr. Coward on Job Trotter, and in 1889, Colonel Jim 

 Turner won it on Britomarte. Britomarte's victory in 

 1889 gave her owner his first win in this race. She was 

 a small active mare, the exact stamp for paperchasing. 

 In 1897, Major Turner won it again on a horse who was 

 the very antithesis of Britomarte, named Aconite, a 

 big raw-boned sort, but speedy and a good fencer none 

 the less. In 1890, the late Mr. Acworth who had then 

 already carved a name for himself upon the scroll of 

 fame by his achievements on old Blackstone, on whom 

 he had won the Average Cup in 1889, won on a beauti- 

 fully-bred horse named Laddie, which the Editor managed 

 to induce him to buy. Laddie came to a tragic end 

 at Tollygunge subsequently, as when being ridden by 

 Mr. Stephen Ralli in the Hunt Steeplechase he fell dow^n 

 dead after passing the post. Grey Dawn, Mr. Butler's 

 horse ridden by Major *'Ding" Macdougall, and 

 Mr. Barrow's Flatcatcher, ridden by the owner, made a 

 great race of it all over, and Laddie was close up. In 

 1891, Mr. W. O. Rees, as the French say, '* arrived." He 

 had only just previously won the Kadir Cup, and made 

 his first serious descent upon the Calcutta Cup on a 

 blood mare named Charity, who was formerly owned by 

 Mrs. Otto Eck, and had been ridden well to the front by 

 that lady. In 1892 Mr. Rees scored again, but he was 

 very lucky to win with Kettledrum, as either Grey Dawn 

 {Mr. Butler's) or Flatcatcher (Mr. Barrow's) would have won 



