There was an interesting race last year between the companies to communicate to India the result of the Derby, and it was won in a way by the cable line.

The messages were simultaneously despatched from Epsom, that by Tehran reaching Bombay five seconds before the other, but as the name of the winning horse only was given correctly, Karachi, six hundred miles distant, had to be asked for a repetition of the names of the second and third horses.

The cable telegram gave the three names accurately.

Had Karachi been agreed upon as the point of arrival for India, instead of Bombay, the Indo-European would have won this telegraph race..