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managed to win one or two big handicaps there. On 

 his voyage to India he took cold and turned roarer. 

 He stood about 15.2, was possessed of immense bone 

 and substance, and showed a good deal of quality. I 

 bought him for, if I remember right, only Rs.400, as he 

 was suffering at the time from a severe attack of catarrh. 

 I had a couple of other horses to ride with my regiment 

 while Reformation was on the sick list. One was a 

 three-year-old colt by a thoroughbred English horse out 

 of a well-bred Australian mare that was a roarer. The 

 first time I gave this colt a gallop as a two-year-old, he 

 made a noise which one could hear a couple of hundred 

 yards off. I had him blistered between the jaws two or 

 three times, and kept on soft food, such as linseed 

 mashes, carrots, and grass. By degrees the infirmity 

 wore off, so that by the end of twelve months he was 

 perfectly clear in his wind. He turned out no good, as. 

 he had "a pain in his temper." A short time before 

 these Allahabad races, Mr. Bob Crowdy came to stay 

 with me. He and I soon put the flat and flagged 

 courses in capital order. As the former was ver}- hard, 

 we had it lightly hoed over and then covered with stable 

 litter. I was doubly zealous in this work, as Dolly 

 Vardcn was a terrible cripple. 



