RACING AND BILLIARDS 



Newmarket Handicap, a six-furlong sprint. He was 

 one of the best horses that ever appeared on a race- 

 course in any country. He was the sire of Maluma, 

 who was brought over to this country by Mr Wilham 

 AlKson, and sold afterwards to Lady de Bathe. There 

 were men who made fortunes over Malua's win in the 

 Cup. He was of such class that I think if he could 

 have been brought to England and properly ac- 

 climatised he could have carried top weight in a 

 Cesarewitch successfully, and was good enough to win 

 an Ascot Gold Cup in many a year. I wonder what 

 Joe Marks thinks. Perhaps Richard Wootton is not 

 quite old enough to remember, but Brewer, who used 

 to train at Newmarket, and now has gone back to 

 Australia, has talked to me several times about him. 

 There were men who thought Malua almost as good a 

 horse as the great Carbine. That will accentuate the 

 chance that was missed. 



There was another horse in Tasmania, Sheet Anchor, 

 who won the Melbourne Cup the year after Malua ; 

 three hundred pounds would have bought him. Mind 

 you, I am talking about three horses quite first class, 

 one of them an animal of a decade. I believe, too, that 

 Stockwell, if they could have trained him properly 

 after that Melbourne Cup, would have turned out a 

 great horse, but Malua — he was a horse and three- 

 quarters. 



It was soon after the Hobart Meeting I have just 

 mentioned that I started an amateur book and would 

 lay the two principal races of the day at the country 

 meetings : the hurdle race and steeplechase or the 

 handicap and sprint. It worked out pretty well, for 

 everyone was allowed to do as they liked in the hotels 

 and on a racecourse, and it was not a bit undignified to 

 operate in this way of laying. There was a charming 



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