i6 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



would cover the field up to the distance post, and that 

 the verdict would be in doubt up to the last stride. 

 Asain, Arabs, more than other horses, "gallop in all 

 shapes," and have such a knack of improving with age 

 and good treatment, that the owner of one which moves 

 in anything like good form need never despair of 

 winning a race with him : as witness the grey horse, 

 Valentine, who belonged to Captain Davison of the 

 15th Hussars, beginning a fairly successful racing career 

 at the mature age of thirteen years ; and Colonel Monty 

 Turnbull's great horse, Rufus, who would have ended 

 his days as a hack, had not Mrs. Turnbull discovered 

 his capabilities during an impromptu spin with a sporting 

 parson. 



Speculation on Indian races is usually carried on by 

 means of lotteries, which are managed as follows. 

 There are generally a hundred chances at ten rupees 

 each, the rupee being at present worth one shilling and 

 eightpence, though formerly it represented two shillings. 

 The chances, like in an ordinary raffle, arc numbered 

 from I to 100, and are taken cither separately by those 

 who wish to invest, or are tossed for with dice. If A 

 tosses B for, say, five tickets and loses, he has, naturally, 

 to pay fifty rupees into the pool, but will share equally 



