-fcEMJNISCENCJES OF SONEPOfcE. 



up n professional the next day, and Jimmy, thinking this 



sound, -made a match, Gentle Annie to get seven pounds 



'from Selim, he put up the best jockey in the country, but 



the mare was beaten worse than when he had steered her 



himself. Little did those sportsmen think that the young 



Highlander would turn out, before many years had passed-, 



to be one of the strongest and best riders that we have- ever 



been able to boast of in India, and who across country proved 



almost invincible. Mr. Gough and Dr. Sawyers were breeding 



'some capital eountry-breds during those years at Patna, and 



the studs of Mr. Wallace at Monghyr, and Mr. Vincent at 



Barh, were in full swing, but the latter made a grave error; 



when Crassus was worn out as a sire, by importing the Irish 



Birdcatcher, a'lmost every one of whose foals turned out 



a useless peacock. Sonepore racing was principally kept 



up from 58 to 64 by the above-named gentlemen, Colonel 



Robarts, Lord Ullck Browne, Kenneth McLeod, and H. B. Sim 



son ; shortly afterwards the brothers Freeman, then part owners 



of Lall Serryah, seeing the pull they had, in having such a 



rider as young Jimmy McLeod, began to develope a taste 



for racing, and gradually the Lall Serryah stable rose to be the 



best in all Behar. But it was to Lord Ulick Browfte the 



.district owed most. Against mighty odds, he not only resus- 



citated racing at Mozufferpore, but never let it flag til : l he- 



was transferred to another province; he left India the virtual 



head of the Calcutta Turf Club, loved and respected by .every 



true lover of honest sport, a straight and true Irish nobleman. 



Colonel Robarts was a funny tempered, peppery old c fellow, 



and about this time owned a chesnut Australian nag called 



Linton, who could win almost any race, if he chose, but, 



like his owner, he had a will of his own, and he generally 



bucked his rider off when going to the post, and then took 



an excursion into the country. The Colonel used to go to the 



starting post, armed with a hunting whip, and his son, poor 



