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he won a Pony Hunters' Flat with Pathfinder II, the Pony 

 Paperchase Cup with the same animal, and now he has^ 

 got away with the Paperchase Cup itself on Lord Harry,. 

 the invincible ! It is a really good record to have put up in 

 one season, and has never been equalled in the annals of 

 Calcutta Paperchasing. Captain Holden rides a very good 

 race, and yesterday morning gave us yet another taste of 

 his quality by pursuing waiting tactics with the greatest 

 possible success, and yet he did not commit the fault of 

 Iving too far out of his ground, but was within easy striking 

 distance of the leaders all the way, and handy at the 

 crucial moment when it became necessary to finally settle 

 all tlie opposition. This Lord Harry did very eft'ectually 

 the moment he was called upon, and a good three-quarters 

 of a mile from home he had Cain beaten and Fairy, who was 

 leading at theTollygunge lane three fences from home, could 

 never have lasted even if she had not run off the paper. As 

 to Corydon, the Heavy Weight Cup winner, the 21 lbs.,, 

 approximate difference in the weights was more than even> 

 so good a horse as Dr. Forsyth's was quite able to concede. 

 Lord Harry is a great stayer, a magnificent jumper and-- 

 handy as a cat, all three things which go to make a 

 perfect ride for this trappy country over which our paper- 

 chases are run. The Cup is usually a good five-mile point 

 with anything from 16 to 20 fences of all sorts, but mostly 

 strongly-built mud walls ranging from 3 feet 9 inches to 

 about 4 feet 6 inches, bamboo fences of the hurdle 

 description, natural banks, narrow raised roads, about 3 

 feet 9 inches to a foot from the level, and which are 

 particularly upsetting to a horse who does not " double" 

 them properly; whilst under foot the going is usually of the 

 roughest, plough, hard stubble land and every field is inter- 

 sected with narrow little bunds, which sometimes are as 

 high as 3 feet, but average about 1 1/2 feet to 2 feet and are very 

 apt to throw a horse that is not used to them out of his stride. 

 Then there are the lanes, narrow places with sharp and often 

 slippery corners, jungle paths, where the rider stands a 

 very good chance of emulating the hirsute Absalom ; drops 

 out of high fields into low ones, blind ditches, dust, heat, 

 and thorns, to scratch the face off you: these are some of the 

 little items that are encountered in a ride over the Ballygunge 

 country. In the Cup, of course, it is every man for himself 

 and the 'deil tak' the hindermost, and very often at a cramped 

 place, or if it is a case of getting first into a narrow lane,. 



