Photo, by H. R. Slierbom Newmarket. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Colonel Dudley Sampson — Return to India— Bombay— A Free Show— 

 Poona— Colonel Morton and the 14th Hussars— The 17th Lancers- 

 General Wardropp — Calcutta— Horsebreaking in a Class and in a Public 

 Performance — Causes of Success — Learning as I went on — Horse Taming 

 and Horsebreaking— Show at Simla — Lord and Lady Dufferin — Lord 

 Roberts — The Duke of Bedford — Sir George White — Mr Rudyard 

 Kipling — ' The Guides ' — Hyderabad and its Native Noblemen — 

 Improvements in Horsebreaking — Mr Jimmy M'Leod and Britomarte — 

 Racing — ' The Treasure.' 



ON the Derby day of 1885, I strolled as usual through the 

 Epsom Paddock to see the horses and to meet old 

 friends and acquaintances, who have a way of turning up at 

 that famous rendezvous, as unexpected as it is pleasant. 

 Among others whom I saw was Colonel Dudley Sampson, 

 who was once a famous gentleman rider in India, and who 

 has since developed into a country gentlemen and a writer of 

 Unionist songs. We fell into a conversation which naturally 



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