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stud. Outsiders were represented by that good horseman 

 Captain Butlean from Lucknow, and the ever faithful Jaffir, 

 who had come into a legacy of Rs. 5,000 from poor old 

 Bricky Collins' estate, as well as all his racing cups, and who 

 had now blossomed forth, according to his own story, as the 

 trainer of a mysterious native nobleman, named Nunna Khan, 

 for whom he had purchased Kingcraft, Salisbury, Rex and 

 Widow ; Kingcraft had been summering at Jaintpore. It 

 leaked out afterwards that Mr. Nunna Khan was Jaffir's son 

 and heir, a funny little boy some three years of age. Dur- 

 bangah's stable consisted of Caspian, Wentworth, Benham a 

 beautiful little chestnut, scarcely over galloway height, bought 

 from Weekes, a good looking grey Arab called Electric, the 

 bay Wabdan, a maiden Arab Sonepore, and Bellona. Later 

 in the meeting he added Raven and Widow to the string, 

 neither Caspian nor Wentworth ran at Sonepore, being unfit. 

 Jimmy had Jim Henderson's uncertain mare Rouble, 

 Mercedes now belonging to the festive " Apples," Fieldfare, 

 Thisbe, Birdlime, Geraldine, Peter and Mill May. Captain 

 Butlean had only Kirby. The Jaintpore stable consisted of 

 Mr. Harvey's Palmerston and Young Tokay, Mr. Charles' 

 Blue Bell, Success and Madcap, the evergreen Spider, Petrel, 

 Longfellow, Merry Lass, North Star, Fleur-de-lys, Lord Ripon 

 ( a perfect beast ), Speechless and Fancy. Mr. Bob Lockhart 

 was training and riding for Mr. St. Aubyn and had the old 

 chestnut Bangle and a pony Ariel; these constituted the horses 

 likely to compete during the meeting, and there seemed every 

 prospect of rattling good racing, and a fair division of the 

 prizes, and so it turned out. Sonepore never saw better 

 lotteries, for it was years since they had had thousand rupee 

 ones ; one filled on each race. 



Mr. Harvey backed his horses in both events through 

 thick and thin, but ticket takers had but poor satisfaction for 

 their money. However, to judge from the noise made, every- 



