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bolting beast Driver ; a strong stable, and one that wanted to pick 

 up a goodly proportion of purses to pay for oats. Kelly M ait- 

 land had only the colt Kingcraft and the useful Crossbee, but 

 they amply paid their way ; John Wheal was training Kingcraft 

 for him. Dacca had found a rival local sportsman to the gene- 

 rous Nawab, in the person of that open-handed Zemindar 

 Baboo Mohuny Mohun Dass, whose horses Sir William, 

 Anarchy and Storm, in charge of Harry Ryder, a good trainer 

 and jockey, were a welcome addition to the meeting. Mr. 

 Macallister, now in partnership with Mr. Pitt, had a moderate 

 lot in Dolly Varden, Kilmore, Lexinton and Barmaid. Bill 

 Brewty had again come with a Bombay string, Delawar, Merry- 

 legs, Buttercup and R.Y. Joe Rainford, now making money 

 and training at Dinapore, had a rotten lot, Pirate, Vivian and 

 Coquette. Wheal had two Arabs Nizam and Saladin ; Mr. 

 Hope, Judge of Chupra, had two useless brutes, Hopeful and 

 Hopeless, but the only planters represented outside the Lall 

 Serryah stable, were Mr. Bob Wilson, who had Ruby, Norah, 

 Barmaid and little Bessie, Mr. Sherman and Lawrence Crowdy 

 who had only one nag each. At the first night's lotteries the 

 attendance was poor, and all George Porter's eloquence failed 

 to fill more than two lotteries, one on the Behar Stakes of a 

 thousand, the horses selling wretchedly and only bringing 

 Rs. 590, and one on a hack race, got up when it was found 

 that the Leger was to be a walk over for Fisherboy and the 

 Bettiah Cup a walk over for Dolly Varden. After these two 

 had paraded before the Stewards, four went out for the Behar 

 Stakes, Fisherboy easily beating Finette, Tom Fraser's car- 

 riage horses, Scot third. The Derby was an easy win for 

 Nizam, Buttercup second, but the Hack Race was a good one, 

 the favorite, Kilmore, winning easily, and being bought after- 

 wards for twelve hundred rupees by a confederacy composed 

 of Rowland Hudson and some brother planters. The second 

 night's lotteries were infinitely brisker than those held on the 



