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sure of her winning against the class of horses 

 in miHtary races. After she was done for racing 

 I gave her to Mr W. B. Purefoy. Her end was 

 tragic. She was gored by a cow when in foal. 

 Mr Purefoy said it was a good lesson for him, 

 and since then he has never had horned cattle in 

 the same field with horses. 



On one occasion Myttons Maid was entered for 

 a ^200 hurdle race at Sandown. As I could 

 not ride the weight, Billy Morris of the 7th Hussars 

 accepted the mount ; in a previous race in which 

 he was riding, however, he came to grief and there- 

 fore could not ride her. The substitute engaged 

 by his advice brought disaster. Myttons Maid 

 had a ewe neck, and horses with that conforma- 

 tion never have good mouths. The rider's in- 

 structions were to let her go at her own pace and 

 not to try and steady her. In the preliminary 

 canter he did exactly what he was told not to 

 do, with the result that she came to the hurdle 

 with her head in the air and took such a bad fall, 

 injuring her shoulder, that she was never much 

 o^ood aofain. 



In 1882 I became attached to the 19th Hussars 

 with the army that went under Wolseley to mete 

 out retribution to the Khedive. I recall with 

 pleasure that campaign in Egypt, 1882, and in the 

 Sudan, 1 884-1 885, when hardships were almost nil. 



