SALE OF 'DULCIBELLA ' 333 



able terms which we succeeded in getting. Moreover, a 

 lighter boy might have lost the race for us, and this not 

 at all an unlikely result ; for, as my readers know, this 

 is one of the disappointments I most fear, having had 

 myself such bitter experience of the result of having a 

 child and not a man on a horse. 



We gave Allen Sadler 300 for riding the race. It 

 was an acceptable gift to him, and he highly appreciated 

 our generosity. I suppose that were such a sum offered 

 on such an occasion to a jockey to-day it would be con- 

 temptuously returned with some such elegant observation 

 as ' Perhaps, sir, you may be more in want of it than 

 I am/ 



I have related how we became possessed of Dukibella, 

 and it only now remains to say how we sold her, and 

 the reason for doing so. Dulcibella, like Promised Land, 

 was sold because I did not think she was, at the differ- 

 ence of age, so good as a four-year-old as she had been 

 at three. She was sold for 1,500 under the following 

 circumstances. She was in the Ascot Cup, and Lord 

 Stamford asked me, on the first day of the races, if I 

 would sell her. I asked 1,500, which, however, his lord- 

 ship said was too much ; but added that he would give 

 1,200, and 300 more the first time she won. I ac- 

 cepted the offer, and we got the sum first asked, as she 

 won the Queen's Plate at the same meeting, after being 

 beaten for the Cup. She ran afterwards in ten or twelve 

 races, and as a six-year-old won the Great Yorkshire 

 Stakes at Doncaster ; but was beaten subsequently and 

 retired from the turf, never having been so good as she 

 was as a three-year-old in October. Mr. Robinson and 

 myself realized by her, in about fourteen months, 2,705 

 by winning the Cesarewitch and her sale. She won us, 

 besides, nearly twenty times this amount in bets, and 



