114 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



by jumping out of a train on some line on the Madras 

 side. Royal subsequently had something to do with 

 breaking that excellent rider, singer, and pedestrian, 

 Mr. Johnson, at t/ie big Umballa meeting ; for the dark 

 bay gelding proved somewhat " reluctant," as we used to 

 say in Muskery long ago. John Wheal, the well-known 

 *' Stumps " of Indian journalistic fame, had brought to 

 the capital of Oude, " Mr. Seventank's " (Babu Shama 

 Churn Mullick's) horses, Gipsy, Acrobat, Syrian, and 

 some others. Dignum and Mr. Lethorn had Aboo 

 Janoub, Abdool Rahman, the country-bred Verbies, 

 who had beaten Hawkestone and the ever-green hero 

 Shamrock at Deyrah, and two or three more ; while 

 there" were many other owners and horses. We had 

 entered Hawkestone for the Lucknow Derby, for which 

 the black mare Gipsy, who had beaten the Earl and 

 Silvertail at Calcutta, for a mile in i min. 52 sees., was 

 running. I knew that our slashing country-bred, who 

 was somewhat straight and heavy in front, would per- 

 form very differently over the easy Lucknow mile, than 

 he had done down the descent and up the ascent at 

 Deyrah, so accordingly backed him. On the last occa- 

 sion I saw poor Ralph Hare (Lord Listowel's brother), 

 who had owned Hawkestone as a colt, he said to me, 



