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paper was given over to the buyer of the winning horse, and 

 he had to run his chance of catching the losers, but the 

 public were waxing wroth, and reform was insisted on ; one 

 big defaulter was handed up and his game stopped for the 

 time. The worst of it was that several of the principal sinners 

 were brilliant horsemen, who might have been ornaments 

 instead of discredits to the Turf, could they have refrained 

 from gambling and confined themselves to riding for others. 

 Behar suffered indirectly, and had to regret the loss of Mr. 

 Raphael Solano's stable from its meetings, tor Joseph and his 

 employer had come to ructions. In spite of numerous wins the 

 account was on the wrong side, and eventually Joseph put 

 Mr. Solano into court, but lost his case, the judge throwing it 

 out on the grounds that promissory notes for Rs. 7,000 and 

 Rs. 740 on which Joseph sued, were tainted with a partly illegal 

 consideration, and therefore could not be successfully sued on 

 in a Court of Law. Some years later, Joseph returned to 

 England, became one of the most successful trainers in the 

 country, and died a wealthy man. The High Court reversed 

 the local judgment, and Joseph eventually recovered some of 

 his money. But Solano burst up, and his stable was sold. 

 Behar men had had a nasty jar over the Bengal Annual Steeple- 

 chase, the last chase ever held inside the Calcutta flat course. 

 First we lost that fine young horseman poor Wilkinson, who, 

 riding Messrs. Arthur and John's second string Baronet, fell 

 at the third fence post and rails and broke his neck. Jimmy 

 won the race on Delphos, Captain Phillips on Challenger second; 

 the latter objected to Jimmy for having missed a fence, but as 

 Jimmy had come in by himself, the judge, thinking all the rest 

 had come to grief, left his box to lead Delphos in, so though 

 the Stewards, while holding Captain Phillips' objection valid, 

 found it a fact the jump had been missed by Delphos, and 

 therefore disqualified him, yet they argued that as there had 

 been no judge in the box, Captain Phillips could not win either, 



