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£1,148 was placed to the credit of the Umballa Race 

 Fund, and a simihxr amount was put down as ex- 

 penses. Bend Or, the first horse, was drawn by a 

 European clerk of the Public Works Department of 

 Simla. I have heard that he had sold his ticket to a 

 European officer for £1,."00, and a further £4,000 if 

 the horse came first. Robert the Devil Avas drawn by 

 a Gundamuck gentleman, and Mask by a Mr. Gordon, 

 of Nizam IJ^'dcrabad. Apollo fell to the lot of a Hindoo 

 clerk in a solicitor's office in Bombay, who sold it for 

 £500, and £3 000 if it came first. Valentino was the 

 portion of a little Parsee boy of Bombay, named 

 Badeshir Banaji, alian Munshi, who sold it to Captain 

 Beaver for £400, and to get £3,000 more if it came 

 first.' 



Some person or another invariably dreams the 

 winner of the Derby, but the name of the horse, or the 

 Dremns of the circumstanccs whicli attend the revelation, 



Derby. r^^.g j,qj^ usually made public till after the 

 race has been decided. Several of the dreams, how- 

 ever, have been authenticated, and three or four of 

 them have been not a little remarkable, whilst not a 

 few of them have gone the round, and have been 

 quoted again and again. The dreams and omens with 

 which we havebeenmadefamiliarseemto have assumed 

 many shapes. Some dreamers appear to see the race 

 and take notice of the jockey and his colours ; others 

 see the number of the winning horse hoisted ; to 

 others, again, is revealed the name of the winner; 

 whilst some dream that they read the name of the 

 first three on the tissue which comes with the news to 



