SOME DERBY AND CUP REMINISCENCES. 73 



dressed swell measured liis length iu the mud, and 

 then got up to shake himself like a Newfoundland 

 dog. 



This year Mr. Forrester had two horses in the race, 

 Eonda and Penance, and the former had done a good 

 trial. In the Trial Stakes, however, on the first day, 

 lionda was beaten, which did not make his Cap chance 

 look rosy. Nasty remarks were made about his per- 

 formance in this race after the Cup ; but they were 

 uncalled-for, as the stable lost a lot of money over him 

 in the Trial Stakes. Penance had run Carbine a 

 great race as a two-year old, but had never run up to 

 that form since. However, he was well handicapped. 

 I think that set-to with Carbine knocked all the pluck 

 out of him, and no wonder, for it was a terrible task to 

 set a two-year-old to beat him. 



The rain poured down like a second deluge when 

 the horses came out. The mud flew up in a shower 

 in the preliminary canter, and in the actual race it can 

 easily be imagined what it was like. 



I was in the press box on the top of the Grand 

 Stand, and at the back of this, some distance away, is 

 *■ the hill,'' which was crowded with a wet, miserable 

 mass of people. 



Umbrellas were put up by some people on the top 

 of the stand, but loud shouts from the crowd on the 

 hill ordered them to be shut. Many declined to close 

 their umbrellas, and a shower of mud in lumps came 



