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the plain, which stretched far away to the right to meet 

 the Ganges, and to the left to touch the Jumna. 



Captain Maxwell and myself had taken two months' 

 leave to spend at Dehra Doon, and had a good house 

 near the course with lots of stabling. Poor " Bricky " 

 Collins was also there with the Arabs Granby and 

 Neville, the Cape horse Merryman, the Waler Pitsford, 

 and others. He had a jockey in the shape of Rowe, 

 who amused himself by composing what he was pleased 

 to call poetry on his fine old master, and on the once 

 mighty Vanderdecken, that Eden Allan gelding which 

 poor Rimmer loved so well. Captain Phillips, of the 

 4th Hussars, had Arab Chief, Tredegar, Kussdom, and 

 the steeple-chaser Challenger, with Donaldson as his 

 jockey ; and a right clever one he was in those days. 

 ■Colonel (now General) Sir H. T. Macpherson, V.C, who 

 .commanded the Indian contingent in Egypt, looked 

 after his lucky Malabar, and had Mr. Hoyes of the 109th 

 to ride him in his gallops. Captain Franks brought 

 Brown Duchess to run. Mr. Collins of Meerut had 

 Navarino, an Arab whose name I have forgotten, and 

 Pavarino for selling races, with Kurreem and a couple 

 •of other native boys to send them along. These three 

 Jads had a real good time of it. They wore rcsplen- 



