CHAPTER VIII. 



THE MEERUT SPRING MEETIN'G OF 1 8/ 1. 



The next meeting for which we entered the horses 

 was the Meerut Spring fixture of 1871. Owing to an 

 inspection or some other unavoidable circumstance, 

 we were unable to go down with our animals, so sent 

 them to that best of Horse Gunners, Mr. Barry Dom- 

 ville, to whom the descendant of the Earls of Nithsdale 

 and now owner of Terregles sent a commission to back 

 Caliph in every lottery, although the little Galloway — 

 he was 13.3 easy — had to meet such good Arabs as 

 Mr. Solano's Rising Star, Captain Phillips' Arab Chief, 

 and Captain Kington's Tredegar, for he Avas a sanguine 

 and impulsive Scotchman, who brooked no interference 

 with his plans. Drawers of horses being as keen to 

 detect a fixed determination to buy, as bookmakers are 

 to scent out a " safe 'un," my friend had naturally to 

 pay a very long price for his property in the second 



