24 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



than once stood down in favor of Panchoo, openly telling 

 his master, that the horses went better with the old man 

 than with him. All that can be said for the Sonepore 

 racing of 1851, is that it was an improvement on its pre- 

 decessor. The stables represented were those of Mr. 

 Monghyr (Wallace), Mr. Arthur, (Frank Vincent) Mr. Cloud, 

 (Kenneth McLeod) of Chupra, and Barnes the jockey, under 

 cover of whose name Edward Studd was now racing. The 

 opening race for the first day was the Durbangah Cup, for 

 which only two faced the flag, the brown Australian Van Die- 

 man, belonging to Mr. Studd beating the local indigo king's 

 Emperor, with Abdool in the saddle ; this was the same Abdool 

 who was afterwards with the late Mr. Gwatkin Williams, and 

 Harry Abbott ; he died some years back at Situlpore Factory 

 where his son is head lad to Mr. Lockhart. All the other races 

 having fallen through, an impromptu hack race for all untrained 

 horses, G.R's only, three quarters of a mile, was got up, and 

 won by a horse of Mr. McLeod's, called Volunteer, but the 

 rider was overweight, and Messrs. Eraser (McDonell) and 

 Cleveland who had run a deadheat for second place, divided 

 the stakes. Again on the second day, for the Bettiah Cup, the 

 race resolved itself into a duel between Van Dieman and Em- 

 peror, but the former won more easily than on Thursday. A 

 walk over by Young Lucifer for the Doomraon Cup, was 

 followed by Mr. Wallace's piloting to victory his own English 

 horse Bedford, in the mile hack race, beating Volunteer. The 

 third day gave Barnes another walk over with Van Dieman, the 

 prize being Rajah Modenarain's Cup. A mile sweepstakes 

 brought out a field of four, three of which belonged to Mr. Studd 

 the fourth, Bedford, to Mr. Wallace, and in spite of the odds 

 against him, and that he carried the crusher of i2st. 4lbs., the 

 English colt got home. On the fourth day Barnes for Mr. Studd 

 walked over for the Civilians' Cup with Van Dieman, and for the 

 Free Handicap with Young Lucifer ; and then came a fairly 



