214 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



head-covering during the bitter winter nights in England" 

 and Ireland, they can hardly be a necessity in the milder 

 climate of India. I think it would be desirable to do 

 away \\ith clothing for horses in stables, were it possible^ 

 during cold weather, and to substitute for it some arti- 

 ficial means of warming the stalls, such as properly 

 arranged fires, which would not interfere with the purity 

 of the air inside the stable, but \\ould, on the contrar)', 

 promote it. Horses which have lived any length of 

 time in a warm relaxing climate, such as that of Bengal,, 

 particularly if they have been highly fed and but lightly 

 worked, are very prone to attacks of li\'er disease on 

 being brought up to the North-West or Punjab during 

 the autumn or cold weather. The}' ought, before tra- 

 velling, to be " cooled down " by bran mashes, green. 

 meat, and a little relaxing physic. 



I had a bad meeting at Dehra. I was not able to- 

 run Fairymount ; Jovial went amiss ; Freetrader got. 

 beaten ; and I lost the first part of a double event bet 

 of Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 100 which I laid Mr. Johnson that 

 he would not win both the Dehra and Umballa Steeple- 

 chases. Though I sought counsel from many veterinary 

 surgeons. Jovial remained ver\- ill. 



I arrived with the horses at Umballa in the worst of 



