312 'PROMISED LAND' AND 'DULCIBELLA ' 



CHAPTEE XIX. 

 'PEOMISED LAND' AND ' DULCIBELLA.' 



Happy Land Purchase of Promised Land and joint ownership with 

 Mr. Robinson How entered Initial disappointment Improve- 

 ment Backed for the Derby Beats and is beaten by North Lincoln 

 Two Thousand trial and race Receives forfeit from Musjid 

 How I lost the Derby The candid friend again My ' emaciated ' 

 condition Home Tooke and ' Old Smith's bullocks 'Incidents in 

 the Derby My confidence unabated A stereotyped answer Wins 

 the Goodwood Cup Beaten in the St. Leger. 



Despised Dulcibella Trial of Killigrew Helping a friend 

 Dulcibella' s trials Mr. Copperthwaite's belief in Bevis Public 

 view of Sutherland's chance The Cesarewitch My dun pony 

 second Kttliyrew's running A grateful jockey Dulcibelld's subse- 

 quent doings. 



I HAVE mentioned how I disposed of Promised Land to 

 Lord William Powlett, and received Dulcibella in part 

 payment, or, as I regard it, as being ' thrown in ' in the 

 deal. I may now relate how I became possessed of the 

 former, or rather of my share in him, and something of 

 the performance of both horses whilst under my care. I 

 owned both of them jointly with my friend Mr. Thomas 

 Robinson, of High Wycombe, Bucks, whose house I used 

 often to visit to look over his stud as well as enjoy his 

 society. I had bought of him as a yearling Glee Singer, 

 by Pyrrhus the First out of Glee, and he had won a race 

 or two for me, or I should say for Lord Eibblesdale, to 

 whom I sold him. The following year I bought his half- 

 brother, afterwards well named Happy Land, by Jericho 

 out of Glee, for 300, which I also sold to Lord Eibbles- 

 dale, after he had been tried, for 1,000 and half of his 

 winnings ; and he won for his lordship at Salisbury the 

 two best two-year-old stakes the following week, and so 

 recouped him the outlay for the purchase in bets alone 



