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can remember her winning at Richmond as a 

 four-year-old in '42. It was in the Queen's 

 l^late; she beat a horse belonging to Colonel 

 Lradock. The following year she beat Nutwith 

 the week after he had won the St. Leger for the 

 Cup at Richmond ; it was a slashing race, too. 



" Commg away from Ahce Hawthorn, what 

 next would you consider the best horse of your 

 time ? "^ 



"Well, there are so many good horses to 

 remember. There was Van Tromp, The Flyin- 

 Dutchman, and West Austrahan. Teddino-toS 

 was a naihng good horse; a thoroughly |ood 

 horse was Teddington. Job Marson told me 

 when he won the Cup at Doncaster, beating 

 Kmgston, that he whipped him farther than 

 ever he whipped a horse in his life. The foUow- 

 mg year for the Cup— the Empress prize it 

 would be then— he fairly wore Stockwell down 

 and beat him a head. That was a fine race- 

 that would be in '53. That was the first time 

 I was at Ascot; I would be a lad twenty years 

 of age then. Teddington was trained by Alec 

 Taylor and belonged to Sir Joseph Hawley, but 

 I rather fancy Sir Joseph had a partner in him, 

 at least so it was said. West Australian was a 

 reaUy good horse. It is hard to say which really 

 was the best. There are a lot of good horses; 

 some say one horse was the best, and some the 

 other. So far as I know personally. Vedette 

 is the second best horse I was ever on. The 

 best two-year-old I ever rode was Exact, by 

 Birdcatcher, out of Equation— one of our own 

 at Ashgill. I had nothing to do with Exact 



