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amount of wear entailed on the shoes of a hard-worked 

 horse on EngHsh roads, and may be surprised at my 

 informing them that a cart-horse often wears out a pair of 

 fore-shoes, each weighing over 4 lbs., in a month. If we 

 take for granted that such shoes are one-third of an inch 

 thick, how then, may I ask, could such an animal do his 

 Avork unshod, when the ordinary growth of horn per 

 month is actually less than that ? 



After Calcutta, Mr. Crowdy and I went to the Luck- 

 now races with Vesper, who, carrying top weight, won 

 the Arab and Country-bred Steeplechase, after a severe 

 finish with Spectre, while Jowaki and Gold Dust were 

 a long way behind. In the pony race, my friend very 

 nearly got killed on Blueskin from riding with too short 

 3. martingale. At this meeting Mr. MacDougall, of the 

 13th Hussars, for the first time came prominently into 

 notice as a cross-country rider, and soon established his 

 reputation as one of the best men in India. He won the 

 Hurdle Handicap, the Lucknow Grand Annual Steeple- 

 chase, and the Steeplechase Handicap, on Kilmore, 

 belonging to my friend the Nawab Syud Ali, of Cawn- 

 pore, who is a thorough sportsman, and also secured the 

 Pony Steeplechase Handicap and the Polo Stakes on his 

 ■own pony Slipper. Mr. Maitland won a good race on 



