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should send one of his emissaries to the Durzi's Bustee and 

 demand to be told what is the exact figure of this unearned 

 increment. We think enough has now been said to show 

 that our friend the " pony man " has every right to claim 

 that a Cup should be given him, for we have proved to 

 demonstration that, owing to the circumstances hereinbefore 

 set out, the dangers that he is weekly called upon to face 

 are far in excess of those that encompass his bigger rival ! 

 There have so far been eleven Pony Cups run for since 

 the year 1894 when it was first instituted, the hiatus 

 having occurred in 1899 when no sufficient encouragement 

 offering, no Cup was given. It then fell into abeyance 

 until 1903. Since that year it has been a recognised 

 fixture, and judging by the large numbers of ponies we see 

 out in jumping events at the Tollygunge Club and Calcutta 

 meetings, to say nothing of the Tollygunge Steeplechases, 

 the pony '' hunter" seems to be increasing and multiply- 

 ing. In the present year of Grace a Pony Average Cup 

 has been instituted. Mr. James Hutchison, Secretary to 

 the C. T. C, is the kind donor, and it bids fair to be as 

 popular as the big Average Cup. 



The first Pony Cup was won by an Arab, one Khalid^ 

 a very shapely little grey, owned, and of course ridden by 

 Captain (now Lt. -Colonel) ''Jim" Turner, then in com- 

 mand of H. E. the Viceroy's Bodyguard. This is not the 

 only occasion upon which an Arab has been successful in 

 event, as in 1903 Captain Smith won it on a great little 

 character named Night, a wonderful jumper, as some- 

 times these Sons of the Desert are when it is born in 

 them. We also are not certain that the pony upon 

 which Captain Ross won in 1898 was not an Arab. But 

 the records were not kept in those years as carefully as 

 they now are, and in matters connected with pony paper- 

 chasing the thing was more or less a go-as-you-please. 

 It is described as " a grey" and if memory serves us 



