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when he was in India will join us in voting him a prince 

 of good fellows. Barrister was a genuine paperchaser and 

 in this race he was to have been ridden by the late Mr. 

 Lawrie Alston, who used to ride as "Mr. Lawrie " and 

 was one of the best men between the flags that we have 

 ever had in India. He and '' Mr. Latham " (Latham 

 Hamilton) were the bright particular stars of those days, 

 though "Mr. Lawrie" was considered by some to be the 

 better man over fences. The late George Robinson how- 

 ever was put up at the last moment. Robinson was then 

 a leading cross-country "pro." In 1891, another genuine 

 paperchase horse won. Slim Jim, owned by Mr. Taylor 

 of the P. W. D. and also ridden by the late George 

 Robinson. Next year another distinguished horseman won 

 Major " Ding" Macdougall, one of the hardest men across 

 fences India has ever known, and Mr. Barrow, who was 

 then making almost his maiden appearance in steeplechases, 

 was a close second on old Flatcatcher, who ran a great horse 

 against Grey Dawn, Mr. Butler's big grey. The race of 1892 

 was a regular nightmare steeplechase as only two horses out 

 of a big field got the course, Kettledrum owned by Mr. W. 

 O. Rees and ridden by W. Alford the professional, and Flat- 

 catcher ridden by the owner, all the rest either falling or 

 refusing. The trouble was caused by Flatcatcher, who ran 

 all across the field at the open ditch, brought a lot of them 

 down and set the rest refusing. Kettledrum was one of 

 the few who got over, and he finished the course alone. 

 Captain — now Colonel — Jenkins of the Rifle Brigade, was 

 so annoyed at the contrariness of his horse Half Pay, on 

 whom poor Captain Jack Hanwell, since then killed in 

 action in South Africa had the ride, that after the last race 

 he got up on his horse himself in his beautiful suit of clothes 

 and rode him a solitary school over the big fences, and gave 

 him something by which to remember his misdeeds ! He 

 was rewarded the following year as Half Pay, with the 



