CHAPTERS FROM TURF HISTORY 



* everybody has his turn.' " The race was the 

 Cesarewitch. Chippendale, who had been specially 

 trained for the event, carried 7 st. 5 lb. There 

 were twenty-seven runners. The popular fancies 

 were Adamite and Westbourne, but Mr. Gretton, 

 who had backed his horse Westbourne to win him 

 upwards of £50,000, also ran Isonomy. In the 

 race the favourite was in trouble at the Bushes, 

 and Chippendale took up the running. Just as 

 Isonomy, under the heavy burden of 9 st. 10 lb,, 

 was making a splendid effort to overtake Lord 

 Bradford's horse, he received a bump from his 

 stable companion Westbourne which nearly knocked 

 him over. Chippendale won the race by a length 

 and a half from Westbourne, and Isonomy was 

 fourth. In the opinion of good judges Isonomy, 

 with a clear run, would have won the race, so 

 that, under the circumstances, Chippendale was 

 rather a lucky winner. 



Two days after this success Disraeli again writes 

 to Lady Bradford. After referring to some im- 

 portant news he had received in connection with 

 a victory by Lord Roberts in Afghanistan, he says : 

 " However, I will only think of your own victory, 

 which is very triumphant. I wrote a line of con- 

 gratulation to Bradford yesterday, who, being 

 Master of the Horse, deserves to win. My house- 

 hold is much excited by the event. I suspect 

 Bradford's valet must have * put them on.' I 

 fear they are all on the Turf, even Mr. 

 Baum."» 



' Disraeli's valet : quite a character (see Life of Disraeli, vol. vi. 

 pp. 501, 581) ; he nursed Disraeli in his last illness {ib. 609). 

 Disraeli always pronounced the name as if it were Beaume. 



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