26 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



Arabs to India. The story, which is more den trovato 

 than vero, goes that the trio were consigned to a so- 

 called gentleman owner, who was a confederate of a 

 Bombay Arab dealer, who had not been let into the 

 secret of the animals' nationality. In the first race for 

 which any of these horses ran, the one entered was 

 winning in a walk, being about a hundred yards ahead 

 at the distance post, when, by an extraordinary accident, 

 be broke his leg and lost the race. The unfortunate 

 native part-owner was loud in his expressions of grief 

 and mortification at having lost, as he said, a horse 

 which could have given at least three stone to any other 

 Arab that was ever foaled. At last, in order to soothe 

 him, his English confederate took him aside and told 

 him that he might well be comforted, for either of the 

 two remaining horses could have given the broken 

 legged one 28 lbs., and that they all three were small 

 thoroughbred English racehorses. The Arab sports- 

 man, instead of accepting his position, as many might 

 have done, indignantly repudiated his connection with 

 his European confrere, and said that he only raced with 

 horses which were bred in his own country. One of the 

 two animals was killed, taken out into the Bombay 

 harbour and thrown overboard, while the other, High- 



