286 ZACHARIAH SIMPSON, ESQ. 



Now, if the running was correct though I cannot for 

 a moment accept it as having been so it would make 

 Brick a long way the best horse of his year, or perhaps 

 of any year, and of this public form never gave any 

 proof whatever. The Gillie, we have seen, was 16 Ib. 

 and a beating better than Muezzin ; and Brick, allowing 

 2 Ib. to have enabled him to win, was 16 Ib. better than 

 The Gillie, which made him 32 Ib. better than Muezzin, 

 or a stone superior to the best horse of his year. Yet 

 he ran unplaced in the Biennial Stakes at Ascot, and 

 only beat an animal like Taje a neck at Goodwood. So 

 in this case, as in many others, the trial was the truer 

 form ; and if I did not win the race outright, it was 

 rather from some ' uncontrollable cause ' than from an 

 error in judgment. 



With our other horses we ran first for the Danebury 

 Nursery with the colt by Vedette, dam by Cowl out of 

 Venus, and won a good stake over it. Manrico was pre- 

 vented running in the Goodwood Nursery by a most 

 singular accident. But he afterwards won us, amongst 

 other races, the Trial Stakes at Lincoln, and the next 

 day was sold to Lord Westmoreland, for whom I won 

 the Lincolnshire Handicap with him. The other horses 

 we had together did nothing beyond winning many races 

 of little note. 



As the accident to Manrico was singular, the particu- 

 lars of it will be of interest. After arriving at Westerton, 

 where we were staying for the week, the horses having 

 been cleaned, watered, and fed, we had our dinner, and 

 soon after returned to the stable to finish doing the 

 horses for the night. On entering Manrico' s box, the 

 boy that went into the stable first came running back to 

 me and said : 



1 Oh, sir, the horse is gone !' 



