For the present, mount my horse yourself and ride back; I will be with you shortly." So they exchanged steeds and parted.
The winner of the Cadousian race was Rathines.
[33] Then followed chariot-races, tribe by tribe as before: and to all the winners Cyrus gave goblets of price, and oxen, that they might have the wherewithal for sacrifice and feasting.

He himself took an ox for his own meed, but he gave all the goblets to Pheraulas to show his approval of the arrangements for the march.

[34] And the manner of that procession, then first established by Cyrus, continues to this day, the same in all things, save that the victims are absent when there is no sacrifice.

And when it was over, the soldiers went back to the city, and took up their quarters for the night, some in houses and some with their regiments.
[35] Now Pheraulas had invited the Sakian who had given him the horse, and he entertained him with the best he had, and set before him a full board, and after they had dined he filled the goblets Cyrus had given him, and drank to his guest, and offered them all to him.

[36] And the Sakian looked round on the rich and costly rugs, and the beautiful furniture, and the train of servants, and cried: "Tell me, Pheraulas, do you belong to wealthy folk at home ?" [37] "Wealthy folk indeed!" cried Pheraulas, "men who live by their hands, you mean.