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Rose was sold to the Rajah by Gascard and was one of the many 

 fine ponies that importer brought up last year. Mr. Edward 

 added another leaf to his already full laurel wreath by steering 

 Greenstone home for Messrs. Thomas' Cup. It is thirty years 

 ago since Mr. Frank Vincent, the father of Greenstone's owner, 

 was the able director of racing at Sonepore, and it was one of 

 the pleasantest incidents of the meeting to old frequenters to 

 see his son lucky on the same course which had witnessed so 

 many triumphs of his sporting father. The Tumkohi Purse, 

 presented by the Rajah, was fittingly won by another Behar 

 Prince, Syed Munjhli Nawab of Patna, a Steward of the meet- 

 ing, and who had himself presented one of the handsomest 

 prizes of the meeting. This wound up the racing. Too many 

 thanks could not be given to Mr. C. C. McLeod for the care 

 he gave the handicaps, which the Stewards after passing 

 found but little to cavil at ; the finishes were a criterion of their 

 excellence. Mr. Tim Lockhart was a careful Clerk of Scales 

 and the general arrangements were all that could be desired. 

 The cards of the days' racing and the ball programmes supplied 

 by Messrs. Thacker, Sprink & Co., were most creditable to 

 that enterpising firm. 



And with this I must end Sonepore Reminiscences, 

 perhaps years hence some other inkslinger may take up his 

 pen and tell how racing improved or retrograded on the 

 favorite old course and some other sportsman may hold the 

 reins which I have done for so many years. 



