The Earl of Minto 



where they crossed the Whissendine, where a good many 

 got in. 



Captain Smith, who rode a horse called Dandy, belonging 

 to " Timber " Powell, dropped his weights when nearly home, 

 and got off and picked them up, but managed to win all the 

 same. 



There was another race the same day with one flag, round 

 which they had to go, and then home again. This was won 

 by " Mr. Roily " on a mare by Leotard, belonging to " Shotty " 

 Aberdour, now Lord Morton. The last fence, or last but 

 one, was an open brook, which was flooded up to the brim, 

 with consequently nothing in front of it for a horse to take ofl" 

 from, and several falls were the result. 



The other point-to-point won by " Mr. Roily," and described 

 by him as the longest race he ever rode in, was in Roxburgh- 

 shire, over six and a half miles of the very best of the Duke of 

 Buccleuch's country. 



Liverpool excepted, " Mr. Roily " describes that at Bedford 

 as perhaps the biggest course he ever rode over ; Cottenham, 

 with its stiff wattles and double post and rails, which had to be 

 taken at a fly, and was the last obstacle but one, running it 

 close. 



Nothing could well be stiffer either than Auteuil. 



" Mr. Rolly's " favourite battle-ground, however, was Bog- 

 side, in Ayrshire, which he describes as a beautiful galloping 

 course. 



Of his subsequent gallantry in the Soudan, his popularity 

 when Governor-General in Canada, and at the present time as 

 Viceroy of India, it is unnecessary to dwell here ; suffice it to 

 say that, in each instance, the same pluck, good judgment, and 

 firmness of purpose which characterised the horseman, are just 

 as prominent in the statesman, only more so. 



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