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good as little fourteen-hand Rabbit was when INIr. Butler 

 used to cut out the work in such style, he would have 

 but little chance against what goes now-a-days. Not 

 only must a horse be a clever and consistent fencer, but 

 he must be very nearly clean-bred or even quite so, and 

 able to gallop and to stay. The course over which the 

 Cup is run is as big as ToUygunge, and if anything stiffer,. 

 as there all the fences are solid, whereas at ToUygunge 

 bar the banks, the fences can be chanced and the distance 

 is a good deal (about a mile and a half) further than any 

 race that is run at the steeplechase meeting. 



Therefore it is perfectly patent that to win the Cup 

 both horse and man require to be in very good trim indeed. 



The tax on horse and man is alwavs rendered more 

 severe on account of the state of the thermometer in the 

 month in which the Cup is as a rule run, and last Satur- 

 day proved no exception as the heat was quite as manifest 

 as was comfortable, though it certainly was not over-power- 

 ing. Notwithstanding, a large crowd of spectators, both 

 on wheels and on horseback, turned out, and from a 

 quarter to seven to close upon the half hour the road from 

 Calcutta to Jodhpore was thronged with carriages and 

 presented the spectacle of a moving pillar of dust, such 

 as would have put the Israelites' pilot cloud to shame. 



The start was from Jodhpore, and after the paper had 

 gone, Mr. McLeod riding a new bay horse and Mr. West 

 on Old Saxonbury, the following put in an appearance 

 under Mr. Petrie's charge, almost all, bar Rosette, having 

 accepted. 



