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sooner dine with any day than fight, a pocket edition 

 of Hercules and quite one of the "show" men of the 

 Calcutta Hunt. Like many another of us, however, he has 

 passed his salad days! ''Alas .... that Youth's 

 sweet-scented manuscript should close!" and that like 

 Faust our beaux joiirs should inevitably have their 

 period ! 



In 1891, that cheery sportsman, Mr. Stuart Verschoyle, 

 won this Cup on Bannagher, a horse that suited our friend 

 a great deal better than old CoUard and Collard which horse 

 he once owned. " Mr. V." hailed from the Emerald Isle 

 and his always exceedingly bright eye was brighter than 

 ever when he landed his nice bay Bannagher a winner of 

 this event. Mr. Verschoyle is now in London, but no 

 doubt he often wishes himself back again in the old 

 Ballygunge country where he spent so many happy hours 

 of his Indian existence. Bannagher stood about 15-2^ to 

 15-3 and was a nicely-bred, dark bay Australian showing 

 plenty of quality and a very nice horse to ride. He 

 was a clever jumper, and, like most of the others who 

 have won this Cup, very handy and nippy. The winner 

 of 1892 was another well-known equine character, Mr. 

 A. S. Barrow's Flatcatcher, the only entire that has ever 

 won a Cup in the Calcutta Paperchases. He was a very 

 temperate little horse and undoubtedly one of the very 

 finest fencers that ever was seen out. He was' a clean 

 thorough-bred, though we have no record of how he 

 was bred. He was first owned by Mr. G. B. Paris and 

 then by Mr. Dudley Myers and last of all by Mr. Barrow, 

 and he died some time later full of years and of honours 

 at the green old age of something like 20 ! 



In 1893, Mr. W. O. Rees scored his second win in 

 this event on a horse named Kettledrum, a very excellent 

 type of paperchaser, and the winner of the previous year's 

 Paperchase Cup. Kettledrum was not a small one like 



