THE TURF. 
horse that belonged to Lord March, with whom he 
lived, while he was either scraping or dressing him, 
was seized by the animal by the shoulder, lifted from 
the ground, and carried two or three hundred yards 
before the horse loosened his hold. Old Forester, a 
horse that belonged to Captain Vernon, all the while 
I remained at Newmarket was obliged to be kept apart, 
and to live at grass, where he was confined to a close 
paddock. Except Tom Watson, a younger brother of 
John, he would suffer no lad to come near him. If 
in his paddock, he would run furiously at the first 
person that approached ; and if in the stable, would 
kick and assault every one within his reach. When 
I had been about a year and a half at Newmarket, 
Captain Vernon thought proper to match Forester 
against Elephant, a horse belonging to Sir Jennison 
Shafto, whom, by-the-bye, I saw ride this famous 
match. It was a four- mile heat over the straight 
course ; and the abilities of Forester were such, that 
he passed the flat, ascended the hill as far as the 
distance post, nose to nose with Elephant, so that 
John Watson, who rode him, began to conceive hopes. 
Between this and the chair, Elephant, in consequence of 
hard whipping, got some little way before him, while 
Forester exerted every possible power to recover at least 
his lost equality ; till finding all his efforts ineffectual, he 
made one sudden spring, and caught Elephant by the 
under jaw, which he griped so violently as to hold 
him back ; nor was it without the utmost difficulty that 
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