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since the early days when that fine horsewoman, Mrs. 

 ''Jim " Cook, set the example, I have not heard of any 

 woman getting badly hurt. Mrs. Cook, who was known 

 in India as the '' Mem Sahib," holds the record of 

 being the only woman who has won the Paperchase 

 Cup when competing against men. She won in 1881, 

 was the only lady in about twenty starters, and her 

 mount was appropriately named Champion. The late 

 Lord William Beresford was second, and General 

 Cook, her husband, was third. After I left India, Lord 

 William gave a cup to be competed for by ladies only, 

 which must have acted as a strong stimulant to those 

 who had vainly tried to beat the " mere male." Mrs. 

 Murray was a most plucky rider, and made more than 

 one good bid for the Paperchase Cup, which she w^ell 

 deserved to w^in. I had a very good Australian horse 

 named Terence, by Talk of the Hills, w^hich got placed 

 in these chases, but when I hoped to do great things 

 with him, I got typhoid fever and exchanged my resi- 

 dence to the General Hospital. The fir-st time I took 

 Terence, who was a beautiful jumper, to a paperchase, 

 two horses fell in front of him at the first jump. A 

 horse ridden by that good sportswoman, Mrs. Saunders, 

 refused a hurdle in front of us, and Terence followed 

 suit. After I had got him sailing away again, a horse 

 ridden by Mr. Garth, a well known horseman, fell over 

 a big blind ditch just in front of Terence, who luckily 

 cleared the lot. Captain Turner was walking about 

 minus horse and hat, and that famous G. R., Captain 

 "Ding" Macdougal, had a nasty purl. In fact, that 



