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But whilst paying a just tribute to the horse we must not 

 forget a far more important duty, our tribute to the lady 

 who rode him. Mrs. Jim Cook and Mrs. Barrow are 

 probably the two best horse-women who have ever been in 

 India, and those who have been so fortunate as to see both 

 these ladies ride will, we do not doubt, bear us out in our 

 assertion. For hands, seat, nerve and judgment, Mrs. 

 Barrow has had no equal in recent years and she was, and 

 is still, in a class by herself amongst horse-women in India. 

 Any horse, any country, it all came the same to her, and we 

 have only to look over the records of this Cup to find suffi- 

 cient proof for the statement that she was the feminine em- 

 bodiment of Whyte Melville's man " to whom naught came 

 amiss." Flatcatcher was not always an easy horse to ride, 

 but he was the most tractable of all those that Mrs. Barrow 

 rode. The mare Belinda on which Mrs. Barrow won in the 

 following year was by no means an easy one to either hold 

 or steer. She was very impetuous and sometimes very rash 

 at her fences. The win on her was all the more creditable 

 as Mrs. Barrow rode her with a finger in a splint, she 

 ^having been so unfortunate as to break it in a fall shortly 

 before the Ladies' Cup of that year was run. Molly Riley 

 on whom she won in 1899 was another '' handful," and 

 yet Mrs. Barrow used to ride her with ease in a snafile, 

 and she also won the Average Cup on her. The fifth of 

 Mrs. Barrow's victories was on a very nice little horse she 

 got from Dr. Spooner Hart — hence his name, Spooner ! ! 

 This was in 1902, and since then Mrs. Barrow has not 

 seriously attacked the trophy, thinking doubdess, as well 

 she may, that she can afford to rest upon her laurels. 

 We must now hark back to 1898, the year intervening 

 between two of Mrs. Barrow's victories. In that year the 

 Ladies' Cup was won by Miss Prophit on The Bun, both 

 rider and mare having learnt most of their business in 

 Ireland, though the rider is claimed by the *'Land o'Cakes." 



