'YOUNG TRUMPETERS' AND OTHER HORSES 335 



visits to him, I learned several valuable things in connec- 

 tion with both breeding and racing. 



I had many dealings with him, and specially in pur- 

 chasing the horses in which we had a joint interest. No 

 man could have behaved in a fairer or more pleasant 

 way than he did to me, or have placed more confidence 

 in everything that I did. He usually stood a pony, or at 

 most fifty pounds, when we backed anything of our 

 own, except, of course, in a big event, when he would 

 invest a little more. After Dulcibella's Cesarewitch we 

 had a few other good-looking horses together. Bugler, 

 by Young Trumpeter, was the best. In 1872 he won the 

 Blankney and Brownley Nursery Stakes at Lincoln, 

 carrying in the latter 14 Ib. extra, and beating Chandos 

 and several others. He also won the Carnival Nursery 

 at Shrewsbury, and afterwards ran there third to Queen's 

 Proctor, 1 st. 2 Ib., and Lord Wilton's colt by Beadsman 

 out of Sandal, 1 st. 6 Ib., our horse carrying 9 st. 12 Ib. 

 In this race he looked all over a winner till he tired the 

 last few strides in the wet ground. Mr. Fitz Oldaker, 

 after this, offered us 2,000 for him. But we did not 

 sell, and this was a mistake; for although he won us 

 two or three small races in the spring of the following 

 year, we then sold him for much less. Little Tom, out 

 of Margaret, so named because of his immense size, was 

 a good horse as a two-year-old ; but, like most of the 

 Young Trumpeters, was bad-tempered. He ran as a 

 three-year-old in the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire un- 

 placed, with 5 st. 10 Ib. on him in each race, and won a 

 stake between the two races, carrying 8 st. 5 Ib., evidently 

 showing that no boy could ride him. 



Conductor was a grand horse, and looked as good again 

 as he really was ; for he was but moderate. I ran him 

 only once in the Trial Stakes at Ascot, winner to be 



