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riding, and had no other place than it on which to 

 " tittup." I represented to them that conversation with 

 their escorts, when riding, could not be easily carried 

 on amid the clatter of the horses' hoofs on the hard 

 ground, and I also pointed out to their husbands and 

 fathers that the softer the " going," the longer would the 

 horses' legs and feet stand ; the result being that a good 

 and lengthy list of subscriptions to the racecourse fund 

 came in, and we got a mile and a half of the finest 

 tan gallop I have ever seen. 



About three weeks after our arrival in Cawnpore 

 I went to Lucknow to run our horses at the Spring 

 Meeting of February, 1872, which had to be postponed 

 for a fortnight ; for the day previous to its commence- 

 ment the sad news of the assassination of Lord Mayo 

 was telegraphed. As the Aligurh races were to come 

 off in the interval, I put the horses into the train and 

 started off with Donaldson, who was then one of the 

 most successful jockeys in India, and a very Archer 

 for getting the best of a start. Mr. " Joe " Anderson 

 also journeyed up from Lucknow with poor Jack 

 O'Connor, the pony Wooloomooloo, and Bohomahondai, 

 that horse of many names, who began life as Nadir 

 Shah in Bombay, from whence he went to run in 



