GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



that it is impossible to compare what happened at these 

 old Liverpools with the events of recent years. 



1847-48 



The race was evidently becoming more attractive, for 



in 1847, when Matthew won, there were twenty-eight 



starters, and next year, when Chandler was victorious, 



twenty-nine. 



1849 



I take it that the Peter Simple who scored in 1849 

 was our old friend, but do not advance this with any 

 certainty, as in two accounts of the race over which I 

 am puzzling he is described as a bay half-bred by 

 Patron, and, as we have seen, in a previous description 

 he was said to be grey. At any rate up to the seventies 

 it was nothing unusual to find several horses with the 

 same name, usually of different ages though not always, 

 and one has to be cautious therefore about one's assump- 

 tions. A scandal of the period was to the effect that 

 Captain d'Arcy, who rode his own horse. Knight of 

 Gwynne, about whom he had taken the odds to a great 

 deal of money, offered Cunningham, the rider of Peter 

 Simple, various bribes, the last one as much as ;^4000, 

 to stop his mount. It is also said that " Davis the 

 Leviathan" laid Cunningham 3000 to 30 that he did 

 not win on Peter Simple. In these days there was no 

 National Hunt Committee, and I have no idea what 

 would have happened to a jockey who got into disgrace. 



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