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Mr. Williams, of the Sth Hussars, who is an uncommonly 

 patient and bold rider across countr}'. Mr, MacDougall 

 and the grey Waler had their revenge b\- winning the 

 Dehra Grand Annual Steeplechase, after a ver}- close 

 finish. I quite forget who won " the odd trick " the last 

 day in the Handicap Steeplechase. Bismillah, in the 

 Galloway Steeplechase, being run into b}- Crossbie at a 

 fence, " over-reached " himself badly on the back tendons, 

 of one fore-leg ; so I left him at Dehra in charge of my 

 native jockc}-, Oodit, to whom I gave strict orders that 

 the Arab was not to leave his stable until all heat had 

 disappeared out of the leg. Anxious to get back to his 

 friends at Meerut, he disregarded my instructions, and 

 started on his journey with the Gallowa\' about ten days 

 after I had left. Bismillah arrived at my stable on three 

 legs, with the fourth one terribly swollen and inflamed. 

 Had he been given three months' rest at Dehra he would 

 have come out next season as sound as ever. The 

 march down had, however, rendered him, to all appear- 

 ance, a hopeless cripple. I sold him for a mere trifle to 

 Mr. Baker, of the Bengal Civil Service, -who, much to my 

 astonishment when I read of the performance in the 

 papers, won a good race with him at Lucknow a j-ear 

 and a half after his accident. Had Bismillah kept all 



