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season is now a thing of the past. Though the season was 

 late in starting there have been no less than twelve meets, 

 and the average number of starters shows that paperchas- 

 ing is in no danger of dying out in Calcutta just yet. A 

 few new riders have come to the front, but the class of 

 the horses is not quite so good as it used to be, probably 

 owing, not to the depreciation in horse flesh, but to the 

 vagaries of the fickle rupee. The gallery yesterday morn- 

 ing was quite as large as we have ever seen it. The 

 road was crowded with vehicles of every description from 

 four-in-hand teams to single horse ticca gharries. 

 The following is a list of the starters : — 



Mrs. Sanders' ... ... ... Footlights. 



Lord W, Beresford's ... ... ... Tortoise. 



Mr. Acworth's ... ... ... Blackstone. 



Mr. Anderson's ., ... ... Commissioner. 



Mr. Apostolides' .. ... ... Cocktail. 



Mr. Douglas' ... .. ... Pygmalion. 



Mr. Euler's .. ... ... Shamrock. 



Mr. Gerlich's ... ... ... Grane. 



Mr. Gregory's .„ ... ... Sterling. 



Mr Orrell's ... .- .. Toby. 



Mr. Petrie's ... ... ... Beeswing. 



Capt. Worlledge's ... ... ... Black Prince. 



The course started with a hurdle on the high ground 

 on the left of Jodhpore Thannah and wound round by the 

 railway line over the mud wall and bank across the Station 

 Road to another mud wall in front of a ditch, then over a 

 hurdle to the Gurriah Hat Road. Turning to the leftover 

 two mud walls, it took a straight cut towards the '' Bunds," 

 but turned again sharp to the left through a village and 

 wound out by the Tollygunge Garden, coming back over 

 the high ground, where three ditches were crossed,- then 

 over two of the " Bund " jumps and back over the high 

 ground to the right of the tank down the low ground to 

 the Gurriah Hat Road opposite the station, and finally 

 finished over a hurdle close to the start. The going was 

 fairly good throughout, although the dust greatly inter- 

 fered with the riders in following the paper, and they were 

 all very much dependent on the eyesight of the leaders. 

 Mr. J. R. Thomas kindly officiated as Judge with the 

 help of Mr. Walker. 



Punctually at 7-15 the paper w^as started by Messrs. 

 Walker and the Tougall, mounted on Malta and Red 

 Rover. Both horses fenced splendidly. With regard to 



