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who, as War Eagle, subsequently distinguished him- 

 self in so many chases, won for Captain Maxwell his 

 maiden race — the Gordon Highlanders' Cup. Captain 

 Ralph Hare's Arab pony Jerry, in receipt of 12 lbs., 

 beat Sweet William for half a mile. Dr. Tippetts' 

 English mare, Grace, late Wild Duck, defeated Captain 

 Joy's Arab, Jurham, in the charger race ; while Caliph 

 beat Captain Joy's black country-bred gelding Rupee 

 (who was a " caster " and had been bought for sixteen 

 annas}, and Colonel Bolton's Arab Galloway, Ruby, who 

 broke a blood-vessel, in the race for the Arab and 

 country-bred stakes. What a row there was over the 

 last mentioned event ! Captain Papillon lodged an 

 objection against Caliph for carrying wrong weight, the 

 terms of the race being : weights to be raised 10 lbs. 

 over weight for age and class. A short time before 

 that, the Calcutta stewards had made a rule that when 

 Arabs and country-breds met, the scale was to be 

 raised a certain amount. Caliph's jockey seems to have 

 thought that the 10 lbs. mentioned in the terms of the 

 race included the weight to be raised according to the 

 C. T. C. rule. He was of course wrong, as it was exclu- 

 sive of it ; and the race was awarded to Rupee. That 

 was the commencement of the row which followed ; for 



