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was a grey Arab polo pony owned by that gallant and 

 cheery Gurkha officer ! As is the case in the other 

 events, the class of pony that wins this Cup now-a-days 

 is considerably ahead of that of those earlier years, for no 

 polo pony could now hope to foot it with fliers like Path- 

 finder, Good Chap, Envious, Reha, etc., to mention a 

 few names of winners and possible winners of the 

 immediate past and present. In 1895 the late Mr. Grant 

 who was a brother of Mrs. J. C. C. Perkins, and of 

 Lt.-Col. Grant, v.c, won it on Ladybird II, a pony that 

 at one time was by no means the safest of conveyances, 

 and upon one occasion handed her owner a very heavy 

 fall. Poor Grant was subsequently killed in a trap 

 accident in Rangoon, but it was always said that he 

 never quite recovered from the effects of the fall he got 

 paperchasing in Calcutta. In 1896 Mr. Richard Magor, 

 Avho is now a belted hurra sahib of Messrs. Williamson, 

 Magor & Co., at home, and who is, so we hear, to be fre- 

 quently seen out hunting with the Essex packs, got home 

 on a clever little mare named Redbourne. She was the 

 apple of her owner's eye and gave him any number of good 

 rides paperchasing, and also in pony hunter's races at the 

 Tollygunge Club. In 1897 Mr. David Eraser, then of the 

 Bank of Bengal, now of the Times staff, a distinguished 

 war correspondent and traveller, won on Little Nell, a 

 clean bred chestnut pony that was a class above he? rivals. 

 Mr. Eraser was as persevering in his pursuit of fame 

 in the saddle as he has since shown himself to be in the 

 literary arena. He used to ride in chases up-country 

 and at one time owned a very smart mare named Irma, but 

 his weight was rather against his getting all the riding he 

 desired, and he never quite " arrived " into the front rank 

 of Indian G. R.^s. There is, however, no doubt about 

 his success in his present line of business, as all who 

 have read his very ably-written books and articles will 



