Benares. 125 



I journeyed to Benares with Brown Duchess, Cah'ph, 

 Wooloomooloo, and Jack O'Connor. The grey Arab 

 met Aboo Janoub twice and defeated him, giving him, 

 on the second occasion, 7 lbs. and a beating for a mile 

 and a half, which he accomplished with 9 st. 7 lbs. in 

 2 min. 55 sees., an excellent performance for a Galloway 

 only 13 hands 2}4 inches. In the pony race, quarter of 

 a mile heats, Wooloomooloo distinguished himself by 

 romping in the winner of the first heat by three or four 

 lengths ; but he refused to try a yard in the subsequent 

 ones, so we lost our money. 



Although the Benares sportsmen had advertised a 

 steeplechase, and had a chaser of sorts in the Waler 

 mare Gipsy, they had no intention of giving Brown 

 Duchess a try, for they made up no steeplechase course. 

 It was quite as well for me that they did not do so, for 

 my mare, on her arrival at Benares, got an attack of 

 jaundice, and was not fit to quit her stable, let alone 

 perform over a country. I represented to the local 

 stewards the hardship of my bringing the mare all the 

 way from Cawnpore without getting the chance of a run, 

 and they accordingly gave me eighty rupees to defray 

 her travelling expenses. 



During the remainder of the racing season I did little 



