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on the road as on a Ballygunge race day, with a field of from thirty or 

 forty riders graduating from our well-known sportsmen on steeplechasers 

 down to willing, but unsteady youngsters on ponies and buggy nags. 



On Thursday the Duke of Connaught, the Viceroy, and Government 

 House party were present, and the meet was the largest that we have as 

 yet had. Every trap and horse in Calcutta seemed to have been pulled 

 out for the occasion, and the cross road where the gallery assembled 

 was quite impassable from the Gurriah Hat Road to the corner. This 

 position must have been as good as the dress circle at the Circus to the 

 spectators, for there were no less than six jumps in full view, including 

 the double, which at one time very much resembled a sheep-pen. A 

 considerable number of the cracks in the first place refused to jump 

 in, and when they did get in, these absolutely refused to get out again. 

 One sportsman incontinently fell off on the flat, and a good deal of the 

 riding was amusing, if not instructive, to witness. The pace was very 

 hot indeed from start to finish, as it naturally would be with such horses 

 going as Jack, Copper, and Handicap, everybody buzzing to the best 

 of their ability. The paper was laid by Mr. Pedestrian and Mr. Latham, 

 and amongst the field we noticed Mrs. Cook on Copper, Captain Baron on 

 a bay. Captain Gordon, Lord William on Jack, Captain Harbord, Mr. 

 Alston on Pilgrim, Mr. Dickson on Ladylove, Mr. Cartwright on Master 

 McGrath, Mr. Beresford on Charles I, Mr. Myers on a grey, Mr. Agra on 

 Drink, Mr. Petersen on Cavanagh, Mr. Learoyd on Handicap, Mr. Donald 

 on Warrigal, Mr. Anderson on Commissioner, Mr. Rawlinson on a bay, the 

 Greek on Sappho, Mr. Butler on his galloway, and one or two others. 

 The start took place on the field to the left of the road, which we crossed 

 at once, then over a hurdle, in a peafield ; a mud wall, a bank, two drop 

 jumps, and a double, all well in view of the dress circle. The last 

 jumps must have afforded considerable amusement to every one, for at 

 one time it was as full as it could hold, with an anxious crowd waitmg to 

 jump in. The redoubtable Jack, too, refused here, but was soon set 

 going again. We then threaded to the left, between two small jheels, and 

 over some mud walls along the edge of the jungle, up a lane with a 

 hurdle in it, and on to a stififish mud wall, where Mr. Dunne came a real 

 " buster." A succession of ditches, a little further on, brought Captam 

 Harbord and Mr. Rawlinson to grief, and an unknown sportsman rode 

 straight into a mud hole, when he was left. The course then led us 

 round a mango tope and across some open fields, the " leps " consistmg 

 principally of alternate walls and hurdles. A turn to the right led us 

 out in view of the red flags and the finish. Here Lord William, Mr. 

 Alston, and Mr. Butler missed a couple of hurdles and disqualified them- 

 selves ; the former, however, persevered, and the other two went back. 



Lord William was the first to go past the post, but as he had not 

 gone the course, the chase must be credited to Mrs. Cook, Mr. Learoyd 



