TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. II9 



ANECDOTES, &c., 



RELATING TO HORSES AND HORSEMEN. 



" English and A ustralian Race Horses in India. — 

 Our old friend Sting appears to be recovering his 

 form in India. At the Umballa meeting he carried 

 9st. 91b. and won the St. Leger, and is credited with 

 having run the mile and a half in 2 min. 40 sec. At 

 the same meeting the Australian gelding Prospero 

 won two steeplechases, Regulator won the Trial 

 Stakes, and Paragraph also was successful. At the 

 Calcutta Sky meeting all the open races were won by 

 Australians. Mr. Maitland has disposed of Sylvanus 

 for 4000 rupees." 



" Australian horses were in good form at the Poona 

 (India) meeting. Sunnylocks, by Tubal Cain from 

 Sunbeam, won the Deccan Derby on the first day. 

 She carried 9st. lib.; Sparkle, 6st. 131b., was second; 

 and Mr Maitland's Steersman, by Robinson Crusoe, 

 8st. 2lb., third. Odds of 2 to i were laid on Sunny- 

 locks, and she never gave her backers the slightest 

 cause for anxiety, for she had her field settled half a 

 mile from home, and won in a common canter. On 



