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did not show any symptoms of roaring, nor Frank any 

 sign of truthfulness when he said she roared and was out 

 of form. Harry Goater rode her in the Park Hill at 

 Doncaster, which she won as she did her other races in 

 a trot. In this, among others, she met Sally again, and 

 could have positively walked by the post and won. Her 

 performance, indeed, so frightened Mr. John Scott, that 

 he came and offered me half the Doncaster Stakes, if 

 Long Bow won it, not to run her an offer which I readily 

 accepted, and so got 410 for keeping her in the stable. 

 This was a piece of sheer luck, as she had a bad leg and 

 could not have run a second race that day if we had not 

 compromised. 



Mr. Dalton after this never kept another racehorse. 

 But why he should have left the turf, I am at a loss to 

 conceive. For, notwithstanding his many disappoint- 

 ments with Bird on the Wing as a two-year-old, and her 

 defeat after she came into my hands, the next year, in 

 two good races like the Oaks and the Yorkshire Oaks, 

 his career was successful. But perhaps, like myself, he 

 was disgusted with the performances of the fashionable 

 jockey, as set forth in these revelations. 



But to revert to Mr. Parker. He was, as I have said, 

 the son of a large dairy and stock farmer, of Aldford, 

 near Churton, in Cheshire. Joseph, not caring for 

 country life, came early to London, where he lived many 

 years with his uncle, at 8, Lower John Street, Golden 

 Square ; and on the death of that relative succeeded to 

 his business, which he carried on profitably. He worked 

 at it indefatigably indeed, being seldom in bed after five 

 o'clock in the morning, having to be at his wharf with 

 his men at half -past. 



The uncle himself was a character in his way. He 

 was a man of great constitutional strength, and, as such 



