The Adjutant's Horse. 6r 



I found that my sixty-five-rupee horse, after I had 

 given him a few feeds of corn, could gallop a bit, so I 

 engaged "Missy" Knox of the 85th K.L.I, to ride him 

 at the coming Umritzur sky races, which were certainly 

 for the benefit of the local sportsmen, of which Captain 

 Maxwell was the great representative ; for the rule was 

 catch weights for all races, while he had two native 

 boys, Tilka and Buddul, who could ride at that time 

 about 6 St. each. Besides these feathers he had that 

 fine horseman. Captain Dudley Sampson, to ride for 

 him. Mr. Knox and I went to Umritzur with our 

 country-bred "gee," which won the two chief races, 

 although he was giving away quite three stone to all the 

 other horses entered, the result being that we won what 

 little money had been speculated. As the Rawul Pindi 

 races were to come off about three weeks after this sky 

 affair, Captain Maxwell sent Ranelagh and Caliph to 

 run there. The sporting division of Lahore and Meean 

 Meer, hearing of the departure of the two cracks, got up 

 a sky meeting for their own benefit, to come off at the 

 same time as the Rawul Pindi fixture. Captain Max- 

 well hearing of this, and anxious that they should not 

 have all the fun and profit to themselves, called on me, 

 proposed that I should run his other horses at Lahore, 



