254 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



Colonel Glass and the officers of the 22nd Regiment, 

 Avhich was stationed at that time at Allahabad, did 

 everything in their power to render the race week en- 

 joyable to the other residents, and to the many visitors 

 who came to join in the fun, by giving garden-parties 

 and dances, and having their Mess always crowded with 

 guests, whom they treated with all the hospitality for 

 which their fine corps has been so long distinguished. 

 Captain Butlin, Mr. Bromfield, and two or three of their 

 brother officers, backed up my efforts to promote sport. 

 I was happy to be able to make some return for their 

 kindness, though in a very small way, by running "Vesper 

 for Mrs. Bromfield in the race for the Ladies' Bracelet, 

 a very handsome work of art, presented by Mr. R. Kelly 

 Maitland, who, by the b}-e, felt confident of winning it 

 himself for a lady in my regiment, on his Arab, Corone, 

 that had won the Calcutta Derby, and accordingly backed 

 it himself. The race was one of quarter mile heats, catch 

 weights, without dismounting. Vesper was an extra- 

 ■ordinary speedy mare for three furlongs, but although 

 she could not " get " quite half a mile, could " stay " three 

 miles of a steeplechase course very fairly, if allowed to 

 keep a " little in hand ; " besides that, she was " as clever 

 •as a cat." In the first heat, Bob Crowdy, on my marc, 



