CHAPTER VIIL 



DERBY AND CUP REMINISCENCES (continued). 



Travelling. A lively experience. Train on fire. Amusing 

 account. A narrow squeak. Tarcoola's win. A great 

 three-year-old. Bad luck over a gallop. Patron's Cup. 

 Oh ! what a surprise. An unlucky horse. Harvester's 

 Derby. An incident after it. Paris and his Cup. Tim 

 Swiveller's disqualification. 



The year following Glenloth's wet Cup I once more 

 found myself in Melbourne for the two big meetings 

 at Caulfield and Flemington. 



We generally went overland from Sydney to Mel- 

 bourne, and some fun we had when we got a merry 

 party together in the Pullman car. The journey by 

 train from Sydney to Melbourne is about five hundred 

 miles. The express leaves Sydney at 5.15 p.m. and 

 reaches Melbourne next day at 11.30 a.m. The sleep- 

 ing cars are models of comfort, and the journey is 

 made as pleasant as possible for travellers. 



When first I travelled this journey there was a 

 vexatious delay at Albury, the border town between 



