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year he happened to be performing at 

 Colombo. He ran two or three horses, 

 but they were in no condition, and though 

 a trick jumping- horse, called Bob, was 

 rather fancied for a hurdle race, he failed to 

 earn his brackets. 



For most of us small fry, however, the 

 principal interest of the meeting centred in 

 the Planters' Cup, a mile weight-for-age race 

 for maiden second-class horses. At first it 

 was practically confined to those picked on 

 their looks out of the "batches" that came 

 up from Western Australia by sailing-ship, 

 and was consequendy full of interest ; but 

 later on it was rather spoiled by different 

 syndicates importing a horse with a character 

 on purpose for the race. I never owned or 

 rode the winner, though it was won very 

 easily by my old horse, Evenlight, before 



