ENTRIES OF 'PROMISED LAND' 3^ 



on that occasion. He won many other races, and 

 finished the year by carrying off the Criterion, beating 

 nineteen others, the largest field I ever saw run for it, 

 being the only one penalized for former victories. In 

 short, he won as a two- and three-year-old, in stakes 

 alone, 2,585. 



Before this I had not been able to resist the tempta- 

 tion to go and see his own brother, notwithstanding that 

 the prohibitory price of 1,000 was asked for him. On 

 reaching Mr. Eobinson's, after a hearty luncheon, we 

 went to see the horse, Promised Land, as he was after- 

 wards called, and I thought him the best yearling I ever 

 saw, except Grosvenor and Surplice. I offered Mr. 

 Robinson 700 for him, then and there. 



1 1 would rather,' he replied, ' you should take him 

 home and train him for me than I would take one 

 shilling less than my price.' 



I told him his faults, in my opinion ; which were that 

 he turned his toes out and was narrow in his hips, and I 

 thought 700 a lot of money for one shaped as he was. 

 However, on my offering him 500 for the half of him we 

 clinched the bargain and a good one, as it afterwards 

 turned out, for us both. I was to have the whole 

 management of him, as usual. Being such a good-look- 

 ing horse and so well bred, I engaged him rather heavily, 

 putting him, as a two-year-old, in the New Stakes at 

 Ascot, Findon at Goodwood, and the Criterion Stakes ; 

 and in the following year in the Two Thousand and the 

 Derby, and at Goodwood, and in the St. Leger, and the 

 Grand Duke Michael Stakes ; and the next year in the 

 Claret Stakes of 200 sovs. each. He passed the winter 

 well, and when Mr. Robinson came to see him in the 

 spring he thought he had grown and improved. Soon 

 after I tried him, when, as I thought, he was fit, at 



