130 MR. PARKER 



disappointment, and one due to the same cause (want 

 of proper control), met him in the City and Suburban 

 at Epsom. Here, in company with another horse, he 

 got away and ran the whole of the course through and 

 into the paddock before he could be stopped ; and even 

 then was third in the race itself. If Noisy had not run 

 in the Dee Stakes and I was strongly opposed to his 

 running, wishing to keep him for the Cesarewitch and 

 Cambridgeshire all the world would have said he was a 

 bad horse, and that I had mistaken his form. Curiously, 

 like Dulcamara, on his return from Chester he was a 

 confirmed roarer, and neither could beat anything after- 

 wards. 



With Cedric, for which he gave 50, Mr. Parker was 

 more fortunate. Though a bad horse, he won the 

 Somersetshire Stakes at Bath, beating Pole Star and 

 several others in a common canter, and was then sold 

 to Lord William Powlett for 1,100 guineas, with his 

 engagements ; none of which, nor any other, did he ever 

 win for his new owner. Sutherland, again, may be 

 classed with the lucky division ; for, though a bad one 

 not within two stone of a racehorse, yet in the Doncaster 

 Stakes he ran second to Cape Flyaway at even weights, 

 beating St. Albans, the winner of the St. Leger, at 10 lb., 

 and Wizard, who ran third, at 5 lb. How he could do 

 this I never could make out; for Dulcibella could give 

 him two stone before he ran for it. and did so on his 

 return to Woodyates. Yet directly after the race all the 

 world knew, except myself, that I had thrown away both 

 the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire in consequence of 

 my not having entered him for them. 



The fact is, although I forgot to mention it to anyone 

 else besides Mr. Parker, Sutlierland had been sent to 

 Doncaster for the sole purpose of finding out how good 



