284 ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



though he had his chances. In some portion of it I was 

 associated with him. He had, amongst other expensive 

 and multifarious undertakings, to which I shall later 

 refer, an extensive breeding establishment. The yearlings 

 he bred and did not sell, he either trained himself, or 

 gave them to some trainer for a share in their winnings 

 should they prove successful. With me, at different 

 times, he had many horses; and amongst them the 

 following: Traducer, Manrico, The Gillie, Isthmian, 

 Signalman, Watchbox, Countersign, and Colt by Vedette, 

 dam by Cowl out of Venus. These, with many others, 

 were our joint property. 



Traducer was a good horse, and if he had been second, 

 instead of being beaten, as he was, half a length for 

 second place in the Two Thousand in The Wizard's year, 

 would have won it ; for the jockey who rode the winner 

 carried 2 Ib. over the weight declared, and would have 

 been disqualified, just as Wells was disqualified on Blue 

 Gown in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, for riding 

 2 Ib. overweight without declaring it ; only in our case, 

 the second horse, Mr. Tute's (alias Mr. PadwicK's) Bap, 

 was in the same stable as the winner, and, as all the 

 party had largely backed the latter, no objection was 

 made. The trial of Traducer for this race showed 

 he had a good chance for it. In it he beat Promised 

 Land, then in very good form, a mile, at 16 Ib., by a 

 head. The fact is, in the race itself he met an extraor- 

 dinary good horse at the distance in The Wizard, and it 

 was only the fact that he closely pressed him across the 

 bottom and half-way up the hill that allowed Eap just to 

 divide them at the finish. With the winner out, my 

 horse must have won. It shows, indeed, how much luck 

 there is in having to meet good or bad horses. For had 

 Promised Land, in the year he won it, met anything 



