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crack Cape horse of Mr. McLeod's. Early in 1859 Lord Ulick 

 left Behar, being transferred to Calcutta. In 1860 Mr. Vincent 

 went home, remaining there for two years, and during that 

 time Mr. Wallace and Kennath McLeod chiefly divided 

 honors at the Behar meetings. Lord Ulick Browne having 

 got married in 1858 had retired from the turf for good, and 

 from the day he faced the altar rails, he never again ran a 

 horse or made a bet, a singular instance of self-denial, for 

 he loved the game dearly ; but although a fair race rider, he was 

 never a real master of the art, and his chief victories were 

 on old Boomerang, who knew more about the art of getting 

 home, than his owner did. Lord Ulick was a sportsman in the 

 truest sense of the word, he never rode or ran a horse, but to 

 win, and his delightful innocence to the end of his career 

 was as refreshing as it was amusing to his friends. The 

 soul of honor himself, he could believe evil of no one. 

 Adversary, one of Mr. Wallace's Monghyr bred youngsters, was 

 a great colt in 1861 and 1862, andMcGiveran won many a good 

 race on him. He was by Crassus out of Antagonist by Veni- 

 son and would have proved as consistent a performer as Mr. 

 Campbell's Pretender, but he did not last long, being unsound. 

 At the end of 1862, Mr. Vincent returned to India and took up 

 the appointment of Dacoity Commissioner, having his head- 

 quarters at Dinapore and living at Deega Castle, the big 

 house on the bank of the Ganges. He still kept up his stud 

 at Barh. He brought out with him a grand little thorough- 

 bred Irish horse called Curraghmore, who won both the big 

 cups at Sonepore that year and repeated the performance in 

 1863. He was beaten the first day by a horse of Colonel Robarts, 

 being unfit, but that gallop was just what he wanted and he 

 romped home for the Bettiah and Sonepore Cups both on the 

 same day. Alas ! that it should be so, but it is an undoubted 

 fact that the horse was pulled by his jockey in the Winners' 

 Handicap, and shame that it should be so, the jockey was 



