14 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Maid of Athens, a comparatively unknown English filly, upset 

 a big pot, and waltzed home for the Doomraon Cup, beating 

 Mr. Charles' Arab Repudiaton, and Mr. Fitzpatrick's country- 

 bred Carlotta, who started a hot favorite. On the third day, 

 although only three horses started for the Civilians' Cup, 

 Brunswick, Greenmantle, and Prestwick, it proved a great 

 race, the first and last were stable companions, Joy on Prest- 

 wick made running for Brunswick, not a length divided the 

 three, Brunswick beat Greenmantle by a head. Then Referee 

 beat Cadwallader and Lunatic, in the Welter, and the 

 Australian Nimrod easily beat the Arab Ugly Buck in the last 

 event but one. Peter Irving scored with a Pusa reared country- 

 bred filly, Miss Julia, in the Pusa Oaks. The fourth day opened 

 with the Sonepore Cup fifty gold mohurs a slow run race, 

 resulting in a dead heat between the Australians Prestwick and 

 Greenmantle, the rival jockeys Barker and Sherburne in the 

 saddle ; the gelding won the run off easily. Two races fol- 

 lowed, two horses only competing in each, and then the Arab 

 Referee finished a poor day's racing, by winning Rajah Moder- 

 narain's Cup, beating the vaunted Selim. The fifth day opened 

 well, four good maiden Arabs going out to compete for the Hutwa 

 Cup, a race to be run in mile heats. Pluto won the first heat, 

 Sultan running second, and Repudiaton third but the next, 

 two heats were won easily by the latter, Pluto second in each. 

 Two walks over for Minuet, and Greenmantle, and then a 

 fine field of eight stripped for the sixteen hundred rupee con- 

 test, which Brunswick won with fair ease, doing 2jmiles in 

 4mins., 21 sees., decent going for the class. The last day saw the 

 country-bred Pretender, who had only been six weeks in 

 training, open the ball by pulling off the first race for Mr. 

 Forrester, the Australian Prestwick having to be content with 

 second honors. Then Cadwallader beat an English filly, Alice, 

 and a poor meeting finished, by the Cape Voltaire winning 

 both the heats in the Consolation Purse. It was the year pre- 



