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decent race, a free handicap R. C., won by Bedford, who the next 

 day collared the forced handicap as well. Emperor beat Nimrod 

 for the R. C. handicap for losers, and then a good mile race in 

 heats was witnessed for the Consolation Stakes, Edward Mor- 

 gan winning the first heat ; Emperor, the second and third. 

 Socially the meeting was successful, lovely weather and a goodly 

 gathering of local planters and civilians, a fair contingent from 

 Calcutta, and the officers and their ladies from both Dinapore, 

 and Segowlie, which was then a favorite military station. In 

 September '51 Lord Ulick Browne arrived in this country and 

 very soon began to patronise the turf. In December he rode his 

 own mare Jessie second to Mr. Studd's Edward Morgan at 

 Calcutta. He took the racing name of Westport which was 

 the place where the breeding stud of his father Lord Sligo 

 was located and where he bred many fine horses his favorite 

 sire being the celebrated Waxy. 



CHAPTER VII. 



YEARS 1852-53. 



The Sonepore of 1852 was a poor meeting, Dick Richard- 

 son, then Magistrate of Chupra, acted as Secretary, but there 

 is nothing worth chronicling. Lord Ulick Browne steered for 

 Kenneth McLeod, and got home twice. 



For 1853 tne management of the meeting had again 

 changed hands, and we find Mr. Arthur (Frank Vincent) acting 

 as Secretary. Decidedly better racing was witnessed, though 

 the gathering of the clans was smaller, owing probably to the 

 yearly increasing dullness of the racing. Mr. Wallace brought 

 a strong string, headed by the afterwards famous country- 

 bred filly Grace Lee, who, ridden by the crack English jock 

 Peter Irving, opened the ball by winning the Maiden Purse, 

 beating Mr. Cough's English mare Diana, and another good, 

 but somewhat leggy country-bred, Lola Montez, owned by 

 Edward Studd, this year running again as Mr. Mortlock. 



