Lord Ulick Browne. 197- 



made his first appearance. A week before the races, 



Lord Ulick and five of his friends agreed to buy, out 



of the bazaar (part of the town occupied by native 



.shops), ponies that had never been ridden by Europeans, 



■and to run and ride them in a race of quarter-mile 



heats, without dismounting : weight for inches. Jcnab, 



who had been just cured of his habit of starting off" 



•at an amble, and taught to pull against a plain snaffle, 



won the race, and was afterwards never beaten in a 



long career of pony racing at Mozuffcrpore, Sonepore, 



Bhaugulpore, and other places. In 1854 he brought 



out two indifferently bred Walers, and secured, at 



Sonepore, a maiden race with one, and beat Edward 



Morgan with the other. He then set up a racing 



stable with Mr. F. A. Vincent, of Barh, the principal 



horses being the Australians Beeswing and Boomerang, 



and had a successful season ; but as he got married 



the next year, he sold off his stud. 



In 1859, being transferred to Calcutta, he took up 

 the two important questions of Racing Rules and 

 Racing Weights in India. As regards the former, 

 there were then about ten rules in force at all meetings, 

 with one providing that all other points should be 

 governed by the Newmarket rules, which were seldom 



