Lord William Beresford, V.C., Some Memories of a Famous Sportsman, Soldier and WitMenzies, Stuart, Mrs.
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Lord William Beresford, V.C., Some Memories of a Famous Sportsman, Soldier and Wit
Menzies, Stuart, Mrs.
Beresford, William Leslie de la Poer, Lord, 1847-1900
At Umballa a match was arranged between Lord William and Mr. Woolmer,
to come off at the Autumn Lucknow Meeting, the friends of each of
these sportsmen betting on the event. It was looked forward to with
considerable interest.
Saltford won the Grand Annual at Umballa, and the stable won a couple
of other races.
At Pindi, Marvel won the Pindi Plate; at Lucknow, Doris the Dilkoosha
Stakes easily, Escapade the Trials, Teviot the Club Stakes.
Some horses were sent off at the same time to Hyderabad with Ryder in
charge and did well, bringing in something satisfactory in stakes.
Myall King, if I remember rightly, won a big race. The race meetings
followed on each other’s heels fairly quickly, and we must now follow
the stable to the Calcutta First Extra Meeting, where Pavo won the
Pony Plate easily. Arab Brat, a wonderful pony, a mass of muscle,
well made and lovely to behold, won the small Pony Trials, Ivo the
Frost Stakes, and in the December Stakes, Lord William led in Lady
Grace the winner.
At the big meeting, December 24th, Sunshine won the Kurnaul Stakes,
Tostig, a most untrustworthy but very fast horse, the Trials, Ivo the
Walter Locke Cup.
For the Viceroy’s Cup this year the stable had nothing they felt that
could compete with the Maharajah of Kooch Behar’s grand black gelding
Highborn. Their Caterina ran, but was beaten by him.
The smart country-bred Sunshine won the Gunny Meah Cup, the fast
Eider the Sandown Park Stake in a canter, and Caterina retrieved her
character by winning the rich Kooch Behar prize, though she had a
good field against her; Little Brat also won the Eclipse Stakes.
It seemed quite correct that after being beaten by the Rajah of Kooch
Behar’s horse for the Viceroy’s Cup that Caterina should retaliate by
winning His Highness’s Cup.
A glance at the winning of the Confederacy at this meeting is
instructive, 21,000 rupees being won between the Patiala and
Beresford horses.
At Tollygunge, the obliging and always ready Edith won the Handicap
Chase. So ended the 1892 racing.
On January 14th, 1903, at Calcutta, that compact and beautifully
made pony Parvo won the Belvedere Pony Stakes, also another a little
later. Vixen, the South American, roped in the rupees in the Selling
Welter, and again next day the Alipore Stakes.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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