226 CHASING AND RACING 



" Weight for age ? Aw no ! Even weights, be 

 Gob ! " 



Now Kilcock, then a four-year-old, was about the 

 smartest miler of his day. 



' Why, you don't mean to tell me ? " 



" Faith and I do, me bhoy ; ut's the treuth I'm 

 tellin' ' ye,' is it not so, Ralph ? " appealing to his 

 fidus Achates. 



The ponderous Palliser signified his endorsement 

 of the startling intelligence. This was good enough 

 for me ! I backed Galtee for the race in question, 

 " Accumulated " on " The Derby," and completed a 

 useful, if not very prolific, treble, when that gallant 

 steed annexed the third and last jewel of " The Triple 

 Crown " on Doncaster's Town Moor. 



Galtee More, who was by Kendal (said to have been 

 the only horse that ever got his head in front of the 

 mighty Ormonde's in a home trial, be it stated), was 

 never beaten in public. I have been trying to think of 

 others in my time that hold a similar record, without 

 counting two-year-olds, who won a race or two and 

 then disappeared from the scene. At the moment 

 I can only recall St. Simon, Ormonde, Polar Star, 

 Barcaldine, Suspender, Galtee More, Hurry On, 

 Kincsem, and that wonderful colt The Tetrarch. The 

 last named, it is true, ran only as a juvenile, but had a 

 brave string of victories to his credit, with one exception 

 all gained with consummate ease, the said exception 

 being in The National Breeders' Foal Stakes at 



