134 REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



Merry Lass. Thisbe won the Chumparun Stakes, and little 

 North Star the Pony Stakes in a walk. In the evening Harry 

 Abbott improvised a Gymkhana, which was greatly apprecia- 

 ted, one of the events especially. It was a side saddle race, 

 the jocks being dressed in ladies' dresses, hats, etc. Three 

 started, Bobby Llewhellin on Princess, was ticked off on 

 the correct card as Miss Jane ; Bob Lockhart on Primrose 

 figured as Jemima ; and Harry Abbott on Ganymede answered 

 to Sarah Ann. 



The following were the terms of this historical event : 

 " For all hacks nominated by ladies to be ridden by 

 gentlemen in side saddles wearing skirts and bonnets with 

 racing colors as jackets ; distance, mile for a piece of jewel- 

 lery. Any gentleman not completing the distance at a pace 

 exceeding an exercise canter to present the lady nominating 

 second horse with a silver bracelet. Any gentleman tumbling 

 off to present the lady nominating third horse with a pair 

 of silver bracelets." 



Jemima looked well in a sweet yellow jacket and black 

 skirt. She sat well down in her saddle, and had a bold look 

 which augured well for keeping her seat. Jane, only having 

 learnt to ride late in life, leaned not ungracefully all over on 

 one side, and several exclamations of " She's off, she's off" 

 resounded from the laughing men of the yoth Regiment, who 

 enjoyed this race tremendously. Jemima had a love of a hat 

 with a real ostrich feather stuck bolt upright in the centre 

 and which was worn by the late Lord Mayor's wife at her 

 presentation at court. The jacket, a lovely sky blue, suited her 

 somewhat sallow complexion admirably, and if her habit had 

 not been somewhat immodestly short, Jemima would have 

 been put down as a regular aristocrat. Then followed Sarah 

 Ann, a most atrociously vulgar young woman in a bright red 

 bonnet with green strings, yellow skirt trimmed with red, 

 and a blue body. A regular roar of applause greeted her as 



