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right away from under me ; how he did step out to 

 be sure ! 



Clinker beat Radical easy; I was pilot that journey, 

 it was all I could do to keep ahead on 'em ; Polecat 

 got cast in a ditch, when Pilot ran with her ; I was 

 pilot there again. Captain Ross rode Clinker against 

 Radical a great match, it would be from Barkby 

 Holt to Billesdon Coplow ; he didn't know whether 

 to take Clinker or a chestnut mare of General Peel's ; 

 he was to have her for 500 guineas if he liked ; so 

 we had a trial over the ground, five on us ; Captain 

 Ross gets on the mare, and puts me on Clinker; I 

 gave every one of them lolbs., each of them had 

 thirteen stone, and I did 'em ; it was a deal more than 

 four miles, and we went it in 1 1 \ minutes ; going the 

 pace, wasn't it, with all that weight ? The Captain 

 he was beat half a mile, and Sir Harry, Mr. Holy- 

 oake, and Mr. Wormald, they stopped at Quenby 

 Hall. It wasn't much of a secret though, this trial ; 

 Melton soon knowed all about it, and it altered the 

 betting a bit ; I was pilot in nearly all those steeple- 

 chases you're reading out of Bell's there ; they gave 

 me sixty yards, and I was to let the horses come no 

 nearer me than that, and I never did ; I knocked 

 down a precious sight of fences for them, but I was 

 never down myself." 



This Marigold, I must tell you about her I have it 

 all in print here. You see, Mr. Coke what how- 

 dacious men to ride he and Sir James Musgrave were 

 to be sure ! he told me, I must always be with 

 hounds where they went, I must go, if it killed the 

 horse ; so this Marigold I sent her at a hedge ; 

 when I was in the air, I sees my danger ; Fright- 

 ened ? God bless you ! I never was frightened in my 

 life ; so I pulls her right back, just as she touched the 

 bank, and shot her hind legs right under her ; 

 we made three landings of it ; it was as steep as 

 a house side ; but you'll read all about it there ; 



