GREEN; YELLOW SLEEVES, BELT, AND CAP 



about "the black" — Regal. Early in the second round 

 Chandos fell, and the outsider, admirably ridden by 

 Joseph Cannon, just had a neck the better of the finish 

 with Congress. Congress was second again next year, 

 ridden this time by Regal's jockey, and it is perhaps 

 somewhat strange in the circumstances that he did not 

 win, for the owner and rider of Austerlitz never 

 appeared safe in the saddle, and had a habit of clinging 

 hold to the back of it at every fence. 



Irish horses had a great run of luck about this period. 

 Mr. Garrett Moore, one of a family of horsemen, uncle 

 of the present Weyhill trainer, Frank Hartigan — about 

 whom I shall have something to say later in the book, as 

 he has worn the green, yellow belt and sleeves — won on 

 his own horse The Liberator, and at this time the 

 brothers Beasley were constantly to the fore. Mr. 

 T. Beasley won on Empress — beating the previous 

 year's winner — in 1880, won again on Woodbrook in 

 1 88 1, and was second, beaten a head by Lord Manners 

 on Seaman, on Cyrus in 1882. Mr. T. Beasley was on 

 the favourite, Zitella, in 1883, but this five-year-old — 

 only three of that age had won up to that date in the 

 history of the race — was never dangerous, and Count 

 Charles, now Prince Kinsky, won, as already noted, on 

 his own mare Zoedone. 



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