under him in Slim Jim. This horse was clean-bred and 

 he performed many a time with distinction in the hurdle 

 races in the open class at the Calcutta Monsoon Races. 

 He was another big horse and a very fine jumper. 

 Mr. Lamond Walker's winner in 1892 was old Blazes, a 

 very well known character out paperchasing, and one that 

 Mr. Walker bought from the late Mr. Lawrie Alston if 

 memory serves us aright. He was named because of his 

 great big white face, and on a foggy morning you could 

 see him coming through the gloom a long way off. 



Mr. Walker rode him for many years and the horse 

 •never, so far as we remember, gave him a fall. In 1893, the 

 late Lord William Beresford won on an English hunter 

 •of a very nice stamp, named Ratafia. He was a beautiful 

 brow^n horse, showing a lot of quality, but we do not 

 remember how he was bred. He was good enough class 

 for steeplechasing and Lord William ran him at Tolly- 

 gunge several times. In the Paperchase Cup of the year 

 he was a close second to the light-weight victor Mr. W. 

 A. Dring, who rode Tantalus. Lord William came like 

 a hurricane over the last fence, but his adversary had still 

 a bit to come and go upon and stalled off his onslaught. 

 Mr. A. J. Pugh won this Cup the next year on a horse 

 appropriately named Taffy since the owner hailed from 

 Wales and, as already narrated, he got it a second time on 

 Sir Gareth in 1896, the year of Colonel Hunt's victory in 

 the Paperchase Cup. In 1895, Captain John Fuller, who 

 was on Lord Lansdowne's staff, won on a mare named 

 Queen — a very good stamp of weight-carrying thorough- 

 bred. In 1897, Mr. "Squire" Walker scored a most 

 popular win on Marguerite, a victory he repeated in 1899 

 on Ice Cream, certainly one of the nicest paperchase horses 

 of this class that we have ever seen out and a perfect 

 gentleman to ride. Mr. Martin of the A. V. D. had won 

 in the intervening year 1898 on a chestnut gelding named 



