3M 'PROMISED LAND' AND < DULCIBELLA ' 



14 Ib. with Happy Land. It was a high trial ; but from 

 what I had seen of his going at exercise I thought he 

 would win. Bevis and Nimrod were in at a stone under 

 him. The result was Happy Land won easily, the other 

 three close together, Promised Land being just second- 

 best. This greatly astonished and disappointed me ; but 

 I would always rather know the worst of things than 

 flatter myself into thinking that a horse is better than in 

 reality he is. I don't think that that day he would have 

 beat Happy Land, T.Y.C., at 2 st., and I gave up all 

 hopes of his ever doing very much good. Still, in the 

 common course of things, he was kept well to work with 

 the rest of the horses, and galloped most days ; until 

 later on, when I was again struck with the manner of 

 his going, and thought, ' Surely this horse is improved ;' 

 and though it was but a gallop, I could not help thinking 

 of it for days after. However, time wore on, and I pur- 

 posely gave him another good gallop with horses in form, 

 and those that I thought would not deceive me. In the 

 result I found that I had a good horse, and that what I 

 had seen before in his early gallops was correct. A few 

 days after I tried him over again at a stone with Happy 

 Land, and he (Promised Land) won by a neck, Nimrod 

 third, two lengths off at 18 Ib. under him, and Bevis at 

 21 Ib. half a length from Nimrod, three-quarters of a 

 mile. 



Feeling sure that Promised Land had speed as well as 

 endurance, I sent and backed him for the Derby at once, 

 before he ran in the New Stakes at Ascot, where I in- 

 tended him to make his first appearance in public. But 

 on his journey there, he met with an accident and hurt 

 his hock ; and though it was not to all appearance of 

 much consequence, I would not run him, but kept him 

 for Goodwood. Here in the Findon Stakes he met the 



