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•paperchase in which she rode in Calcutta, when on a return 

 visit just prior to her saying good-bye to India for ever 

 and a day. He was a golden chestnut, full of quality, and 

 as clever as they are made, but, like all those of his colour, a 

 bit what they sometimes call " high-couraged," or in other 

 words a trifle keen. Mr. Euler and Shamrock were 

 however fast friends, even if at times it looked as 

 though a dissolution of partnership was imminent. 

 The next man to win the Heavy Weight Cup was Mr. 

 *' Jim" Petrie, one of the two brothers who used to ride as 

 if they had several spare necks in their pockets. Mr. 

 *' Jim, " known to everyone in the old times as " Bally- 

 gunge Jim, " used to perform prodigies of valour on a 

 clever bay mare named Beeswing, and Mr. " Will " rode a 

 bier raw-boned brown named The Snark, and would 

 undoubtedly have won a heavy weight cup on him, if such 

 a thing had been in existence in the days when he 

 used to go so hard. Collard and Collard, the horse upon 

 which Mr. Jim Petrie won the Heavy Weight Cup, was a 

 rare-shaped one, and if only you put a rug over bis head, 

 you would think him extremely good-looking — but his 

 head spoilt it. It was because of it that he got his name, 

 for it was as long and about the same shape as a grand 

 piano. *' Ballygunge Jim " used to say that old Collard 

 =had a strong dash of the Panic blood in him, and perhaps 

 .he was right. He was an undeniably good hoTse how- 

 ever he \vas bred, a great fumper and as honest as 

 the day. He lasted for miany years after he won this 

 distinction, but now both horse and owner have, 

 -alas! gone to the happy hunting grounds, both regretted 

 sincerely by all who knew them. Dr. Taylor who won 

 in 1891 on Slim Jim was a hard-riding P. W. D. man, 

 and took to horse exercise of a serious nature late in life. 

 Hq ^vas — and for aught one knows still is — a man who 

 was absolutely dauntless and he had a real good one 



