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who was conceding her one stone thirteen pounds, but the 

 colt failed to do it, and the mare romped home. The Dur- 

 bangah Cup only brought out Moosa and a very third class 

 Arab of Gwatkin's, J.B., in front of whom Moosa had 

 simply to canter to win. The Planters' Purse brought out 

 six, Driver and Red Gauntlet were favorites at the lot- 

 teries ; but the dead outsider Scalpel was neatly piloted to 

 the front by Vinall, Jimmy on Driver second, Rowland on 

 Black Eagle third. An Arab Handicap for a purse of Rs. 300, 

 presented by Mr. Macallister, proved a fine race, Delawar, 

 Moosa, Chieftain, Crossbee and Syrian placed as named. 

 Major Lindsay rode his own horse, carrying top weight, ten 

 stone, and he would have got home, but being too sure of 

 Chieftain's capacity, he made the unpardonable mistake of 

 making running. Finch and Brewty quietly waited on him, 

 and both squeezed in, in front of the amateur ; a neck dividing 

 the three. Two poor hack races, with the local G.R's up, 

 ended the day, Rowland winning the Moorcroft Stakes on 

 Revenge, from Bar None and Portia, and Jimmy on the honest 

 studbred rejection Parody, beating the walers Daybreak and 

 Redgown. Bertie Short bought Daybreak shortly after this, 

 and turned him into a chaser, but how he escaped breaking his 

 neck off him, was a marvel, for Daybreak generally fell ; 

 though more than once he was remounted by his plucky owner 

 and won. The third day opened with two walks over by 

 Baronet and Syrian, respectively, for the Civilians' Cup and 

 Bedouin Stakes. Then came Kelly's Handicap, pulled off by 

 his own Crossbee. Parody, who had been sold overnight by 

 Jimmy to Harry Fraser, or, rather, Harry Fraser and Donald 

 Reid, who raced as Mr. Donald, upset a pot on Red Gauntlet, 

 Gilbert Nicolay on the winner, beating his own crock with 

 Jimmy up. Then came a handicap for a bracelet presented 

 by the Behar Camp, in the course of which that brute Miss 

 Bertram twice bucked Gilbert off, once in the preliminary and 



