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most of the other winners, but he was of the sort that 

 never made a mistake and he and Mr. Rees scored 

 many victories in company, both out paperchasing and 

 between the flags at the Monsoon Races. In 1894 and 

 1895, the United States in the person of ]\Ir. C. C. 

 Campbell were "all over us," and Miss Theo, who was 

 a mare that at one time was almost unrideable, simply 

 made hacks of everything that went out. Mr. Campbell 

 was not a great artist in the pigskin, but what he lacked 

 in knowledge he more than made up for in pluck and 

 dash. He and the little bay mare were — literally — in- 

 separable, and they had a great time of it in the years in 

 which all these brilliant victories were scored. Miss Theo 

 was another small one — scarcely over 15-1 and of the 

 compact handy sort. She w^as absolutely clean-bred and 

 Mr. Campbell got her from Dr. Spooner Hart, who let 

 her go comparatively cheap because she w^as such a vixen 

 and most uniractable. Mr. Campbell, however, seemed to 

 exercise a magnetic influence over her, foi'she became quite 

 a reformed character and quite obliterated the memory of 

 her lurid past by the exemplary manner in W'hich she 

 behaved, when under the ''protection" of the hard- 

 riding American. The year 1896 saw a lady for the first, 

 but by no means the last time successful in this event, 

 and Mrs. Lamond Walker won on little Dick — a horse 

 whose exploits in the Ladies' Cup are referred to in the 

 chapter dealing with that interesting event. Mrs. Walker 

 has won this Cup three times, a record that has not been 

 equalled in the whole history of the event, and bearing 

 in mind all that this entails, it is an achievement of which 

 she may be very justly proud. Mrs. Walker learnt to 

 ride in India, and her first horse of any note was a big 

 bay named " Benjy, " a great customer over a fence 

 and one that suited his courageous little mistress 

 immensely well. " Benjy, " we think, may justly lay 



