REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE. 



sportsman this year, by the death of poor Monty Stewart who 

 was running horses in partnership with Lord Bill Beresford. 

 Prospects looked very bad for Sonepore, Mr. Abercrombie 

 issued the usual prospectus, but finding in September that the 

 only entries up till then, were those from the Jaintpore stable, 

 he wrote asking Harry Abbott if he would act with him as 

 Joint Secretary. He consented, and started by endeavouring 

 to get up-country sportsmen to enter and come, and though 

 it was a bit late in the day, he nevertheless managed to in- 

 duce his old trainer Robinson, now with Nawab Syed AH of 

 Cawnpore, to bring Wicked, Yanathan and O' Kelly, and 

 persuaded Lord William to send Ryder with Blackthorn and 

 Mooltan, as well as Captain Hopkins, who brought Pandora 

 and a couple of others. H.H. of Cooch Behar had a pony 

 called Kate. Gwatkin Williams, Bob Lockhart, and another 

 sportsman running as the Conservatives, all promised to sup- 

 port the meeting. They had an unknown commodity in an 

 Australian named Beaconsfield, Bangle, and another called 

 Northcote ; Gwatkin was also looking after two of Kajeh 

 Ahsanoola's, Dacoit and Kangaroo. Paragraph, Somerset 

 and The Abbot had been imported during the year by Southall 

 for Messrs. Apcar and Abbott, and had hot weathered at 

 Jaintpore; the stable had also Rebecca, Queensland, Chieftain, 

 Christmas Carol, Caractacus, Sir Bevis, Speechless, Maid of 

 All Work, Devastation, Rosine, Chaste Susannah, North 

 Star, Avenger, Chief and a little daughter of Kathleen's by 

 Echo, called Mavourneen. Neither Paragraph nor Somerset 

 ran, being reserved for Calcutta. Captain Charley Gordon 

 of Segowlie, just back from Egypt, had a thin looking rail of 

 an Australian called Wily Pedestrian. Captain Paget, the 

 gunner of Dinapore, had a black gelding Seer, and the Chupra 

 sportsmen were determined, if possible, once more to bring 

 back the prestige of the meeting ; Sproggins, Nixon, Bob 

 Lockhart, Gwatkin and all the planters did their level best, and 



