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Metcalfe, to show his rare powers of organisation, and 

 certainly the durbar held by him at Bankipore in honour o 

 the Prince, was magnificently carried out. The most amu- 

 sing part of the show was to see that mountebank Dicky 

 Temple, then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, jumping about 

 like a big monkey, and teaching the planters how to bow, 

 when they were before H.R.H. The Calcutta Turf Club had 

 to regret the retirement during the previous season of two of 

 the most respected of their body of stewards honest Jim 

 Crawford, who had been Collector of Customs for many years, 

 and had generally acted as Judge at the Calcutta and Bally- 

 gunge Meetings, and Colonel Monty Turnbull. Both left 

 with the cordial good wishes of their friends, who were legion. 

 The Turf Club Stewards for the year were Lord Ulick Browne, 

 the Nestor of the lot, Captain Ben Roberts; Remount Agent, 

 one of the best judges of a horse that ever lived, Captain 

 Biddulph, Mr. Charley Moore, to whom th^ Club owes much 

 of late years for his careful thoughtfulness in framing rules, 

 as well as his having been the chief factor in starting and 

 keeping up the Tollygunge course. Mr. J. McLean had taken 

 Mr. Crawford's post ; and Captain Harry Peacock, a sportsman 

 to the backbone, was Honorary Secretary. That Emperor of 

 writers on all matters connected with the horse, Captain 

 Horace Hayes, launched his first effort in literature this year, 

 " A Guide to Horse Training and Management in India," than 

 which a better book on the subject has never been penned. 

 In the Oriental Sporting Magazine that year, General Turn- 

 bull writing from England, gave Mr. Hallen and his support- 

 ers a well-deserved rebuke, he said and truely, " The Indian 

 Government have done all in their power to discourage horse 

 breeding, they have smashed their studs instead of remodelling 

 and improving them." For Sonepore the Stewards of 1875 were 

 Messrs. Abercrombie, Arthur Butler, Fred Collingridge, Teddy 

 Drummond, George Llewhellin, Colonels Shaw and Browne> 



