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The next race on the card was a mile welter race, gentle- 

 men jocks only, Mr. Wallace's Rejected beat Annette and 

 Hero. The winner was steered by that accomplished Lower 

 Bengal horseman, Mr. Stocks, the silk planter, who came all 

 the way from Berhampore, to show the Behar boys, they were 

 not the best in the land of Ind. Then came a hack sweep- 

 stakes, bringing out Edward Morgan, whom Simmy had now 

 promoted to knighthood, ridden by his eccentric owner in first 

 rate form, he got home a short head in front of Nell Gwynne, 

 after one of the gamest struggles ever seen at Sonepore. To 

 finish the day, a half mile scurry for untrained hacks was im- 

 provised, and again Simmy steered the winner, Alice, Mr. 

 Lambert on Maggie Lauder second, both riders doing all they 

 knew, and a neck only dividing the horses. The third day 

 opened with a thirty gold mohur, round the course race, for 

 all horses, won by the Confederate's Australian mare Bees- 

 wing, who beat Legerdemain easily, the cranky Diana after 

 fighting as usual till she got into the straight, then showed her 

 turn of foot by nearly catching the leaders. Mr. Stocks again 

 scored in the mile and a half welter, winning on Rejected, who 

 had been bought by Mr. Jorrocks, a festive name under which 

 Simmy was now running, from the local G.R.'s Lord Ulick and 

 Eraser McDonell. Then, elated with victory, Simmy was silly 

 enough to send out his game little pony Indigo, only standing 

 I 3- I i) to run against Eraser McDonell's big Arab Beppo, with 

 the inevitable result of a farce. The closing event, a Galloway 

 Stakes, in which Indigo might have had a chance, was won 

 by half a length by an undersized stud-bred filly, bred at Barrh 

 called Vesta, ridden by Simmy, Eraser McDonell making a good 

 fight on Chocolate, and Jack Lambert whipping in on Diamond, 

 who might, if he'd not played the fool at the start, have had a 

 good look in at the finish. Chocolate was afterwards sold to 

 Henry Hudson. Unfortunately, much interest in the racing was 

 lost, owing to the crack countrybred Grace Lee having gone 



