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managing the Nurhun Estate for the Court of Wards, his 

 head-quarters being at Pusa. Poor old Bicrom, his memory is 

 still green with us. Another great loss to the meeting was 

 debonair Charley Boileau, who had sold his share in Cheyton 

 ; Pursa, and left to manage a business in Bombay, where he 

 reigns now king of the Yacht Club ; to him, honest :< Bosun " 

 Elliot, and cheery Bob Lockhart was mainly due the upkeep 

 of the meeting from 1885. Poor Bill Stewart, whose cyni- 

 cal sayings had amused us for many Sonepores, died at 

 Mirzapore during June. The racing opened favorably, the 

 presence of Majors Wallenstein, Beaver and Prior, and 

 Messrs. Scales, Gregson, Gregory and other plungers, made the 

 lotteries go with a verve they had not experienced for years, 

 and Harry was dead beat, every night. Kangaroo squandered a 

 big field for the Lilliputs, and Harlequin easily settled Melody 

 and Mirabelle in the Karnaul Purse. A splendid field of ten 

 declared for the Doomraon Cup, and Charley Webb's Midas, 

 a dead outsider, romped home with Victor Hickley up. Midas' 

 winning the Cup was a surprise to everyone, and should 

 show men who can't afford to race, that it is quite pos- 

 sible with care and a well selected horse, to beat big stables. 

 Here was a zillah nag, trained on a track round the factory 

 zerats, and without the aid of a light weight, coming out and 

 beating Spray, The Ghost, Albicore, Caulfield, Torchlight 

 and Flying Fish, all carefully trained racers. 



Mr. Charles Charlton won the Hutwa Cup. On the 

 second day, Midas, this time with Rowland up, again beat all 

 the cracks for the Bettiah Cup ; then Harry Abbott's Exbank, 

 beautifully ridden by Captain Carandini, won the Durbangah 

 Cup ; and his stable followed this up by pulling off the biggest 

 plum at the meeting, the Merchants' Cup, with the dead 

 outsider Little Sister, belonging to Major Prior, young Frank 

 Shakespear steering her; Mr. Charles' Young Chorister, a hot 

 favorite, was not even placed. However, there- was balm in 



