. REMINISCENCES OF SONEPORE, 1 5 1 



was, he might have scored a second win in the Derby, in 

 which after one false start, owing to Mavourneen being on 

 the wrong side of the post, the field got off fairly together, 

 O' Kelly and Lielle going to the front, Tingey on Geraldine 

 lying next, while the Jaintpore pair and Mooltan whipped in. 

 At the three-quarter mile Geraldine and Mooltan, followed 

 by Mavourneen, who was on the extreme outside, took closer 

 order, and the four leaders ran a pretty race to the corner, 

 when Mavourneen shot to the front, and O' Kelly fell back 

 beaten, the countrybred filly coming round very wide. At the 

 distance Ryder was niggling at Mooltan ; Geraldine had cried 

 enough, and the cornstalk was sitting still ; but inch by inch 

 Ryder crept up, and in the last few yards the superior stride 

 telling, the uncertain bay came home a winner, all out, by a short 

 length ; Geraldine third, the rest easing off. Had the filly 

 been able at any time to slip inside, she must have won, for 

 she came in seemingly quite undistressed. She galloped 

 just in the same form as her good old mother. The other 

 jockeys declared they could hardly ride from laughing when 

 they found the only dangerous one in the race was the queer 

 little despised weed they had all been chaffing Southall about 

 for the last week. 



The Behar Stakes was a fairly easy win for Jimmy on 

 his own nag Toots, though Tingey on the Jaintpore repre- 

 sentative, Devastation, who had run off the course at the start, 

 made him sit down and ride at the distance. Pandora won 

 the Galloway Stakes in a walk, the first and only win Captain 

 Hopkins had at Sonepore. Much better lotteries on Friday. 

 For the Bettiah Cup five accepted, in one lottery held Beacons- 

 field and Caractacus divided favoritism. 



A poor lottery on the Durbangah Purse, only Wicked, 

 Mavourneen and Christmas Carol going out. Wicked favorite. 



The Welter had six acceptors, Wily Pedestrain, Yana- 

 than, Mercedes, Maid of all Work, Sir Bevis and Seer, 



