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unequalled feat. Our queer-voiced Madras friend, Mr. Bates, 

 alias Covey, turned up again at Sonepore, bringing the Arabs 

 Marquis and Caractacus, as well as the handsome chestnut 

 Australian Telegram. Ryder had Newcastle, Lincoln, the 

 evergreen Anarchy and Gazelle. Gwatkin Williams had 

 a fine bay Australian Emigrant, Zephyr and the country- 

 bred pony Goldmohur, belonging to Jim Bourdillon. The 

 Messsrs. Crowdy had the old English cripple Dolly Varden, 

 their crack country-bred mare Deception, and a pony called 

 Fairy Queen. Jimmy had his usual big string, Fieldfare, Glen- 

 garry, Bill, Shamrock, May, Snowdrop, Bowrar Bill, Geraldine, 

 Stampede, Gameboy and Red Gauntlet. Couzens, the jockey, 

 had Cardigan, the greatest Arab of the day, Lady Aid, Cantator 

 and the pony Godfrey. Rainford, the contractor, had Liberty, 

 Slipstone, Maid of All Work and the pony Pearl. Harry 

 Abbott naturally wanted to scratch his horses, but on its 

 being pointed out that the countrybred races would fall 

 through if he did so, ran them. He had Kathleen, Spider, 

 Slowcoach, Rocket and Black Diamond. Kathleen was a clean 

 bred filly, whose dam, Rosa Doretta by Bay Middleton, had 

 been bought at home for the Indian stud ; she had been covered 

 by Prince Plausible, a son of the famous King Tom, but was 

 thought not to have held. A week after landing she threw a 

 filly foal, a terrible weed, which was rejected as a yearling, 

 and sold at Bankipore to Dr. Lethb ridge's old bearer 

 for forty rupees. She afterwards fell into the hands of 

 a Chumparun planter, who gave her to Jimmy McLeod to 

 train, but he thought her too slight to stand racing. She then 

 was sold to Mr. Fred Atkinson, who was checking accounts 

 in the Tirhoot famine. He ran her at the Mozufferpore Meet, 

 riding himself and she got third to Sweetheart. Harry Abbott, 

 who had steered the latter, had a shrewd idea Kathleen was a 

 clinker, and got Mr. Fred to enter heragain to meet all the cracks 

 in the open race for C.B/s and let him ride her. He bought 



