124 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Echo, more infirm than ever, Blue Bell, whom he was training 

 for Norman McLeod, better known as " Finn Macoul/' Black 

 Diamond, the ever-green Spider, old Kathleen, whose racing 

 days ended at this meeting, Pendragon and Gamecock. Jimmy 

 had Fieldfare, Mercedes, Doleful, Rufus, Snowdrop, Panmuir, 

 Widow, Mill May and Denis. Gwatkin Williams had B. 

 Sharp, a host in himself ; Jaffer had Thisbe and Alleppo, and 

 Ryder, Gazelle ; these constituted the starters. Vantage 

 won the Leger, and Harry Abbott on Gamecock won the 

 Derby, Denis then diversified matters by appropriating the 

 Tirhoot Stakes. Talkaway romped home for the Bettiah Cup, 

 beating Fieldfare, Raven and B. Sharp. Rowland Hudson on 

 Mercedes and Jimmy on Doleful then fought out a close race 

 for the Behar Stakes, result a dead heat and owners divided. 

 Thisbe beat Snowdrop, Panmuir and Echo in the Selling 

 Stakes, and was claimed and bought by Harry Fraser. On 

 the second day Blue Bell, in receipt of ten pounds, got home 

 for the Hajeepore Stakes Handicap, after a tremendous race 

 with her stable-companion Talkaway, Fieldfare beaten off. 

 Mill May collared the Galloway Stakes, Spider beat his old 

 opponent Geraldine in the Moorcroft Stakes, and Harry 

 Abbott scored a third win with Pendragon in the Selling Race. 

 On the third day little B. Sharp got home in the Durbangah 

 Cup due chiefly to Ryder on Fieldfare and Tingey on Talk- 

 away despising him ; waiting on each other they let Jaffir get 

 too far away, and when they tried to catch him, it was too late. 

 The win was most popular. Alleppo beat Gamecock in the 

 two mile Hutwa Cup, Blue Bell walked over for the Chum- 

 parun Stakes, and Mercedes won the Welter, beating Harry 

 Abbott on Conemara, a desperate puller, who, in two previous 

 false starts had bolted, and each time completed the course 

 ere he could be stopped. Conemara was the property of the 

 sporting Mess Sergeant of the 65th, Jim Hard, and great was 

 the delight of the Tommies to see their representative figure 



