JOE'S DIAMOND JUBILEE 



market and paid a visit to his brother Dick. You 



may know what a pecuHar horse Diamond Jubilee 



was and how he could never stand anyone near him ; 



he was the horse who was the means of bringing 



i Herbert Jones to the front. Diamond Jubilee took 



i such a strong aversion to Momy Cannon that it was 



! impossible to put him up again on the great horse, who 



I was a perfect terror. He was savage; not really 



' vicious, but tricky and obstinate. Care and patience 



j improved him greatly. During his two-year-old 



! career he was quite well mannered, but later he 



; developed a terrible temper ; he threw Morny 



Cannon one day and tried to savage him and showed 



his strong dislike for the jockey. This was one of his 



phases of expressing himself. I met Joe Marsh once a 



day or two after he had been down to Newmarket, and 



, he told me what had happened. His brother Dick 



had wanted to give Diamond Jubilee a ball, but the 



horse was in such an impossible frame of mind that it 



was thought impossible to try it with him. " You go 



and see what you can do," said Dick chaffingly to 



him. Joe took the ball and went into the box. It 



was child's play to the witch-doctor ; he simply 



walked up to the terror and he took it. He was out 



of the box well inside a minute. " I thought so," said 



Dick : " he turned you out in double quick time. I 



was beginning to get a bit nervous about you. But 



Where's the ball ? " " Down his throat," answered 



Joe, " what did I go in for ? " 



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