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he was transferred to Mozuffernuggur and during the cold 

 season won several chases at Dehra, Umballa and Meerut. 

 In 1873 he applied for and got appointed to Dehra and here 

 he was in his element, for the pretty little station was then in 

 its zenith as a training centre and was filled with sportsmen, 

 prominent anong them, that grand old soldier Colonel Robarts, 

 Colonel Need, David Papillon, Captain Maxwell, Abdool 

 Ghyas, Captain Phillip, Dr. Sewell, Kelly Maitland, Joe 

 Rainford, and Bricky Collins the contractor, Dr. Marmaduke 

 Tippets, and Oscar Dignum the professional who taught 

 Bertie how to ride with judgment and finish. At Lucknow 

 that year Bertie won one of his best ridden chases ; nine 

 started, Horace Hayes on that sweet mare Brown Duchess, 

 Captain Franks, one of the best G. R.'s that ever flung boot 

 over saddle, on the favourite, Time, David Papillon who, short- 

 legged and thick set as he was, was an artist as far as hands 

 and judgment of pace went, Captain Grant on Sunbeam, 

 Mr. Hartwell on Marquis, Fred Welcome, the professional, 

 afterwards Messrs. Hart Bros' trusty head man, on Harkaway, 

 an uncommonly nice looking chestnut Australian, Bertie on 

 War Eagle, then Joe Rainford's property, O'Conner on Hilde- 

 garde and Crook on Major Harris' Duke. Owing to the crass 

 stupidity of the owl who was responsible for the building of 

 the course, the first fence would scarcely permit of five horses 

 jumping it abreast, and as there were nine starters, grief was 

 inevitable. Time, Harkaway, Sunbeam, Hildegarde and 

 Brown Duchess, all collided and fell, and War Eagle won 

 easily. On the same game horse he won the Grand Annual 

 and the Handicap Chase at Dehra. At the Umballa Spring 

 Meeting he won the Handicap Steeplechase on David Papil- 

 lon's Doctor. At Bareilly he once more steered War Eagle to 

 the front. In the chase, a terribly big bank which Marmaduke 

 Tippets had erected purposely to stop War Eagle was nego- 

 tiated by this superb fencer in magnificent style, but the 



