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The winner of 1889 was another well-known customer 

 of the old days, the late Mr. A. O. Acvvorth's Blackstone— 

 a very well-named horse for a barrister to own, reminiscent 

 as the name is of those voluminous Commentaries written 

 by that great and erudite man. If only one could repro- 

 duce Blackstone's *' commentaries " on Paperchasing, we 

 should indeed have an entertaining record ! Blackstone 

 was as knowing as a wagon-load of monkeys, and we 

 believe never once put Mr. Acworth down ! He was a very 

 ordinary little' black Australian to look at, and probably his 

 sort would not live with them the pace the horses of 

 to-day go : but he was an honest, plodding sort, that never 

 put a foot wrong, and had always an extra leg to spare 

 when there was a bad place. He and Mr. Acworth were 

 devoted to one another and thoroughly understood one 

 another's idiosyncrasies. Mr. Acworth had many a try 

 to get the Paperchase Cup on Blackstone, but the 

 little horse never had pace enough for that adventure, 

 and his owner finally bought Laddie with which 

 horse he was, as already recorded elsewhere, in the end 

 successful. 



In 1890 Mr. W. O. Rees, who was then a new-comer 

 to Calcutta, won on that *' notorious character" CoUard 

 and Collard, a horse whose name figures more than 

 once during this history of paperchasing. He was a 

 great old customer and a strong persevering sort. We 

 think that bar his old fiddle-head he was one of the best- 

 shaped horses we have ever seen. Grand shoulders, a 

 great long rein, quarters that would lift him over a township 

 and he was let down behind like a grey-hound. He was far 

 from slow and in the between whiles, when there was no 

 paperchasing, used to carry a silk jacket with much success. 

 Mr. Rees was, and is, one of the hardest and most daunt- 

 less horsemen we have ever had in Calcutta, " a good 'un 

 to follow, a bad 'un to beat." He is a man we would far 



