268 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



telling the adjutant that one was going out with them. 

 *' The Duke," as we familiarly called him, was sharp 

 enough to see that no unfair advantage was taken of his 

 kindness. He was a fine soldier and good sportsman. 

 He, Captain Hickson, Captain Harley, Mr. Kekewich, 

 Mr. Hinde, myself, and others had many a pleasant 

 scurry across country with his " bobbery " pack in the 

 evenings after jackals, and also with the hounds which 

 Mr. Skoulding, V.S. of the Horse Artillery, hunted, aided 

 by Mr. Allsop, son of the brewer, as whip. Besides 

 my own horse. Colonel Couper, Superintendent of the 

 ' Remount Department, gave me the use of a high caste, 

 XJOwerful young Arab, which I subsequently bought for 

 Rs. looo, and called Bismillah. Colonel Morley had, in 

 the bay Australian horse Partisan, the handsomest and 

 most showy charger in India. This animal, who formerly 

 belonged to Mr. Bradshaw, after winning all the races 

 he started for in ]\Iauritius, where they add ;^500 to the 

 chief event, was brought over to Calcutta, and won there 

 the Governor-General's Cup, beating the English horses, 

 Castle Hill, Miss Trclawny, and Bridesmaid, the Walers, 

 Satellite, Karpos, The Fawn, and North Australian, and 

 the Cape horse Merryman, after a sensational race, as 

 he was the extreme outsider of a large field, as far as 



