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Paperchase Cup of Calcutta, and considering the distance 

 is three to four miles as a rule and sometimes more, it may- 

 be well understood that it takes both a fit horse and a 

 fit man to win it. The race for the Cup kills anything 

 that is "soft, " and a slow onealso has very little chance, 

 though there is of course always the chance of the leader 

 over-shooting the mark, and one that to all appearances 

 is '' beaten to the world " coming home, as happened when 

 Mr. W. O. Rees cut in and won on Kettledrum when to 

 all appearances two fences from home Grey Dawn and 

 Flatcatcher were the only two left in. The race last 

 Saturday mornin^^ Avas a good one, and the course ditto, 

 but I thought somewhat on the small side, for none of the 

 fences were so big as we have had them in former years. 

 To I\Ir. C. C. Campbell we must all combine in offering 

 •our heartiest congratulations, for he has nobly deserved 

 all the Cups he has won. Miss Theo in my opinion could 

 have gone clean away from the field at any portion of the 

 journey, as I consider she was lolbs. in front of anything 

 that started; Mr. Campbell nevertheless drew it dangerously 

 fine and might well have lost it had Miss Theo blundered 

 at all when she hit the last hurdle, but as it was, she 

 cleverly recovered herself and galloped on without chang- 

 ing her stride — and got home. The mare, 1 am sorry to 

 hear, has since the Cup been laid up with a lump on her 

 knee as a result of that last hurdle, and it is a wonderful 

 piece of luck that her one and only mistake should have 

 •come after she had won the Cup, for which her hard-riding 

 owner had been keeping her. The course started from the 

 bank bv Pilgrim's Corner taking a bee-line for the Tolly- 

 gunge Lane, the fences intervening being a fair-sized wall 

 to start over, an open ditch, a flight of hurdles, and the 

 big wall, on to the bund, a very fair bill of fare in so short 

 a distance as you will admit. Then it went to the left down 

 the lane till it came to the break in the underwood which 

 lets us through into the lesser bund country and travelling 

 over a flight of hurdles and a wall it eventually went to 

 the left over the high ground, and through the short lanes 

 to the bund country proper, jumping en route from the 

 drop side, the fence by the Mahomedan graves. The bund 

 country was taken from the Jodhpore side as usual, and 

 after jumping it the line lay round the jungle belt for 

 MoUa Hat, the two walls in the hollow being the last of 

 the mud fences. The finish was in the plough alongside 



