i88 BREEDS OF POLO PONIES. [Chap. VIII. 



to train. Although he played in the winning team 

 of the tournaments of 1891 and 1892, his owner did 

 not consider him to be a hrst-class player until the 

 following year, when he played him at Hurlingham. 

 While in India, he grew over height for polo in that 

 country ; but coming under the Indian rule for '' Ex- 

 isting Polo Ponies," he obtained a certificate and was 

 allowed to play. After Captain le Gallais had put 

 him on board the troopship, in which the pony went 

 with him to England, he received a telegram con- 

 taining an offer for the pony of 2,500 rupees, which 

 he refused. Johnnie now measures 14.11^. He has 

 beautiful shoulders, well-set-on head and neck, sound 

 legs, sloping pasterns, and good feet. He looks a 

 trifle narrow behind, but his quarters are long and 

 strong, his gaskins muscular, and his hocks well 

 shaped. Though by no means a showy pony, he is 

 a capital type of a well-bred, wear and tear Arab. He 

 played in the winning team of the Paris Inter- 

 national Tournament, 1894, and of the Champion 

 Cup of the same year. I bought him on the day 

 of the final of the County Cup, and rode him in 

 that match. I afterwards sold him to Mr. John 

 Walker. Captain Tilney's Royal, which is one of 

 the best Arab polo ponies that ever came to 

 England, has had an exceptionally long career at 

 the game. I played him in his first tournament at 

 Calcutta, in 1888, for the 17th Lancers, which we 

 won. He has taken part in almost every match 

 played by the regiment since that date, and is 

 now (February, 1902) taking his ease in Ireland, 

 while his owner is in South Africa. In the last 

 match in which I saw him take part, he carried his 



