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absence safe-guarded The vet. and the head-lad in sickness 

 Condition balls and others Flowers supersede the dung-pit 

 Improvement in food and drink Suggested additions 

 Clemency of jockeys towards owners Apology for treating 

 the subject - 263-282 



CHAPTER XVII. 



ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



Excellent position as a banker Perverse use of it An example 

 at Newmarket Turf career Our joint ownership of horses. 



Traducer in the Two Thousand The Gillie's dead-heat 

 with Brick The trial and the race Manrico Getting a 

 horse out of a well A bet luckily recovered Partial stud 

 successes How a breeding establishment may be ruined 

 Curious disposal of yearlings Other costly occupations, and 

 result A fortune saved on a pound a week The teeth-test 

 with chickens and horses How Delilah lost and won her 

 pedigree Social attributes - 282-297 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



CAMBRIDGESHIRE TRIALS. 



Trials at Woodyates and Shipton, and performances in the race of 

 the following : Allbrook, Hobble Noble, Weatherbound, Catch 

 'em Alive, Sultan, and Foxhall Foxhall's wonderful victory 

 Compared with Tristan and Iroquois Need of a ' stayer ' 

 in the Cambridgeshire Value of trials Story of the fraud 

 as to weight in Catch 'em Alive' s year Jockeys in trials 

 Jockeys and 'stable-boys' in the saddle contrasted In- 

 stances and their teaching - 297-311 



CHAPTER XIX. 



' PROMISED LAND ' AND * DULCIBELLA.' 



Happy Land Purchase of Promised Land and joint ownership 

 with Mr. Robinson How entered Initial disappointment 

 Improvement Backed for the Derby Beats and is beat by 

 North Lincoln Two Thousand trial and race receives for- 

 feit from Musjid How I lost the Derby The candid friend 

 again My ' emaciated ' condition Home Tooke and ' Old 



