274 Indian Racing Reminiscences. 



to distinguish the difference between a real race and an 

 exercise gallop. I may mention that during his train- 

 ing I gave him a good deal of linseed and carrots, and 

 restricted his work to short spins, with plenty of walking 

 and trotting exercise, as I had found that such food and 

 treatment act well, as a rule, with roarers. 



My Carabinier friend won the steeplechase in good 

 style on Vesper, who was the perfection of a safe con- 

 veyance across country ; but, I regret to say, he " cut 

 a voluntary," as many another good man has done 

 before, on Mr. Vere's Clinkerina, whom he was riding, 

 making a mistake in the Pony Handicap Chase. 

 Jowaki, whom I was training, won the Galloway 

 Steeplechase, and also the Sensation Handicap. Cap- 

 tain Calvert secured a good stake with Sans Culotte in 

 the pony flat race. Although this meeting was only 

 a local affair, I won about fifteen hundred rupees, with 

 but trifling risk. There is a great deal of truth in the 

 old proverb that " little fish are sweet." 



After this meeting I sold Reformation for Rs. 800 to 

 Captain Cook, who did no good with him, a.s he tried 

 to make a steeplechaser out of the old roarer, who, if he 

 objected to one thing more than another, it was jump- 

 ing, as it seemed to knock the little wind he had out 



