REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE, 



first, and prospects for Thursday's racing looked excellent. For 

 the Ticcaree Cup Sir William was ahot favorite, bringing Rs.63O 

 to his lucky drawers. He won in a common canter, Hopeful, 

 Hopeless and Dolly Varden only opposing him, the last-named 

 merely going to the post Then ca;ne a splendid race for the 

 Arab Handicap, game little Ana/chy beating Delawar and 

 Crossbee. AH Abdoola, when At Sonepore the year before, 

 had persuaded the Behar boys/to let him select some Arabs for 

 them at Bombay, promising to give a purse of Rs. 400 for 

 them to run for. The rac* brought out six decent pigstickers, 

 racers they certainly wer^ not ; Rowland won on his own Ame- 

 thyst, the only one vith any turn of speed. The Planters' 

 Purse was another good race, Mr. Mackellar's Barmaid beat- 

 ing Kilmore, his oast-off of the previous day ; Black Eagle 

 close up. Then Rowland steered Bob Wilson's honest mare 

 Norah in winder of the Moorcroft Stakes ; and so home to 

 breakfast. Rattling good lotteries on Friday, Sir William, 

 favorite fo? the Civilians' Cup, his rivals being Fisherboy and 

 Barmaid. A tremendous field, for Sonepore, of nine for the 

 second-^lass handicap, caused three lotteries to fill on it, 

 favoritism being divided between Finette and Kilmore, latter 

 for choice. In the Civilians' Cup Fisherboy beat the Dacca 

 crack easily, a great feather for Jimmy's amateur training. 

 Anarchy beat the handsome cur Saladin for the Durbangah 

 Cup, and then Red Gauntlet, on whom Jimmy got a flying start, 

 beat Norah, Canton-Sue, Barmaid and Driver for the Hajee- 

 pore Stakes, That brute Driver bolted with Rowland ; he 

 was a sulky brute, and it was a mercy no one was ever killed 

 by him. Diana, neatly ridden by Gilbert Nicolay, beat Bessie, 

 Finch up, in the pony race, though had not the latter swerved 

 at the whip when close home, she would have won. The 

 starting during the day was atrocious, and in the big hack race 

 it took half an hour to get the horses off, and then Vaudeville 

 was left at the post. Kilmore, piloted by Dignum, just got 



