26 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER 



run against, tlie result, if favourable, will put liim in 

 a position to challenge all comers at Cairo for the 

 long race of seven to ten miles, when no doubt he 

 will take the conceit out of them. The race with 

 Said Pasha's horse is to be on the same ground as 

 the last heat, only run in a contrary direction, with 

 an additional mile of heavy sand. You will hear 

 from us when the thing comes off.' 



This letter was dated Alexandria, March 6, 1853 ; 

 and in BelVs Life of September 25 following came 

 an account of a match between the English mare 

 and an Arab belonging to Hallim Pasha, apparently 

 substituted for that owned by Said Pasha ; and it 

 will be seen that, owing to an accident, the English 

 horse did not win. The correspondent of that paper 

 writes : 



' On August 9 a match came off here between an 

 English mare and an Arab horse for 350/. a side — 

 distance 9J miles, 4 miles 7 furlongs out, and the 

 same distance back again, without stopping. The 

 run out was accomplished in 15 J minutes, and the 

 Arab returned home in 11 J minutes, having per- 

 formed the distance in 27^ minutes. The English 

 mare, about a mile from home, swerved from the 

 straight road, and her jockey, in trying to turn her, 

 upset her into a cane-fence ; she thus lost the race. 

 The English party engaged therein wish to take it 

 up again ; but Hallim Pasha, owner of the horse, 



