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gets worse and worse ; but ponies were plentiful though the 

 majority lacked quality. A new line was opened out this year 

 owing to the undoubted satisfaction given by the Arab Polo 

 ponies selected and sent to Behar by that best of judges and 

 good fellows, Veterinary Colonel joe Anderson of Bombay, 

 several local dealers were induced to import Arabs, and 

 several very decent ponies found ready sale at an average 

 of Rs. 500. The sanitary arrangements were excellent this 

 year, and among the visitors was Surgeon Major Dyson, 

 who seemed very pleased with the care taken by the local 

 authorities in this respect. The polo ground was in capital 

 order and intense interest was shewn in the different contests. 

 Mr. Mill's camp played brilliantly but were beaten in the 

 final by the Mozufferpore team. As usual each camp gave 

 a nightly at home r which served to pass the evenings away 

 pleasantly, and introduced us to several new singers. 

 Mr. Frank Lyall had a magnificent voice for a crow chorus, 

 but we missed this year the dulcet notes of that famed vocalist 

 Mr. Jim Wilson, who is the only localite who can approach 

 Mr. Paul Valetta in sweet strains and love songs. 



Captain Gunn very kindly handicapped for the third day 

 and was most impartial in his allotments of weights, but as he 

 pointed out it was impossible with the conditions binding 

 him to eleven-seven as top weight to level Stewpan and 

 Ihumata to the rest, and the results of the third day 

 showed the correctness of his judgment. However the 

 lotteries filled briskly and the racing was the best seen at the 

 meeting. 



The third day's racing was somewhat spoilt by both 

 Stewpan and Ihumata being such dead certainties, but Mr. 

 Mills' Cup produced a big field and a pretty race, Jimmy's 

 game little Arab, Norman, having his work cut out to beat 

 Bob Lockhart's country-bred, Maud, a daughter of Caracta- 

 cus and almost a hand smaller than the winner ; she was 



