one of the leaders of the rebellion was a well-known Shanghai mafoo and the Settlement residents were hugely amused when reading his grandiloquent declaration that Shanghai was ever keen on horseflesh and one reads that the carriage parade in the new park was "second only to that in Hyde Park." A comment on the races makes one wonder whether the prizes were excess sively valuable, or the ponies worse than the average sub-griffin of today for the chronicle: writes:—"If all the competing animals had been put up to auction they would not have fetched the value of the prizes given. There were four races for China ponies, two for any ponies, one for imported ponies and three for horses. An imported Australian beat an Arab in a canter."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.