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enterprising firm of seed merchants, Messrs. Begg, Suther- 

 land & Co. of Cawnpore, and for this Kangaroo and Jessie 

 divided favoritism, but the Arab succeeded in getting home 

 an easy winner in front of Jessie, with Tom Tit third. Then 

 Jimmy'sTete-a-tete appropriated kind-hearted General Parott's 

 Farewell Kurnaul Purse, beating Victory and Hubshi easily ; 

 for the first half mile the jockeys on the big pair cantered 

 leisurely along and allowed little Hubshi to get a tremendous 

 lead, but the rogue put his ears back turning the home 

 corner and let them catch him hand over hand. Roy Ganga 

 Pershad, the wealthy Durbangah Banker and Zemindar, gave 

 a very handsome pair of silver side dishes to be run for ; they 

 were chosen by his Manager, Mr. Gasper Gregory, from 

 Messrs. Elkington & Co.'s stock. Six horses started to do 

 battle for it, the favorite, Blaze, belonging to Joe Anderson, 

 winning after a good race from Gipsy ; the latter's owner, 

 Jack Barclay, claimed the winner and secured a cheap nag. 

 The Durbangah Cup was a closely contested struggle, Knights- 

 bridge at last earning a winning bracket for his popular and 

 sporting owner. Exbank had been badly treated by the handi- 

 cappers on his first day's running ; and, though they weighted 

 the others fairly, they treated Exbank alone as if it had been 

 an untruly run race. He, however, again occupied the proud 

 position of last, conclusively proving his first day's form cor- 

 rect. For the Merchants' Cup of Rs. 1,000, given by Messrs. 

 Gisborne, Kilburn, Begg Dunlop and Gillanders Arbuthnot, 

 nothing would go down with the public but Mike, and it was 

 thought that the Jaintpore trained pair would run first and 

 second, but Young Chorister showed up most unexpectedly 

 and, having seemingly returned to his old form, split the pair 

 opposite the stand and for.a moment looked like winning, but the 

 game little brown came like a lion when Pugh shook him up, 

 and eventually romped home a couple of lengths in front ; 

 Marquise a close third. On Tuesday afternoon Captain Scales 



