36 REMINISCENCES OF SONfiPOfcfe. 



CHAPTER IX. 



YEAR 1856. 



And now we come to 1856, the best Sonepore, which 

 had been seen for some years, Mr. Fraser McDonell still 

 running the show. A goodly gathering of sportsmen and their 

 lady friends assembled early in November; Lord Ulick Browne, 

 a scion of the well-known Sligo family, and who had resuscita- 

 ted Mozufferpore, was now one of the Confederates, and with 

 Messrs. Lambert, McDonell, Simson, Vincent, Latour 

 and several others, represented the local officials. Messrs. 

 McLeod, Wallace, Fraser, Major Holmes (Mr. Irregular) and 

 Captains Cooper, and O'Callaghan, were among the owners. 

 Mr. Stocks was up again from Berhampore, Sir Charles 

 Oakley running under the name of Mr. Catapult ; Colonel 

 Apperley from Pusa, and Captain Monty Turnbull, who had 

 married Colonel Apperley's sister, were there too. Mrs. Turn- 

 bull was one of the most accomplished horse-women I have 

 ever seen grace a saddle, she accompanied her gallant hus- 

 band in his famous ride from Umballa to Shikarpore during 

 the Mutiny, and earned for herself the name of the Star 

 of the Desert. Monty in partnership with Lord Ulick, and 

 Colonel Nassau Lees, shortly after the Mutiny, brought out the 

 Oriental Sporting Magazine and co-edited it with the above 

 gentlemen till he retired in 1875, He owned the great Her- 

 mit, and several other lovely Arabs. On the first day three 

 only came out for the Derby, two of them being Mr. 

 McLeod's, the other Lucks All, hailing from the Monghyr 

 stable. Chancery was a hot favourite, but to everyone's 

 astonishment he did not have it by any means his own way, 

 as the three jockeys, Curran, Folkes, and Irving, fought out a 

 magnificent contest, Chancery only winning by half a head, 

 a head dividing Gauntlet from Lucks All. The course was 

 very heavy going, owing to late rains. Now came the Irregu- 

 lar Cup, presented by Major Holmes, for all Colonial and 



