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night. Two years afterwardS' — in '59 — I was in 

 an accident again on the E-oodee. It was in 

 the Dee Stakes again. Five of us fell. There 

 was Somerside (Wells), Ben Bow (Ashmall), 

 Maid of the Mist (T. Chaloner), and Cresswell 

 Avas riding something else, and I was on 

 Hainbow. Somerside struck into the heels of one 

 of the horses. She was the first to fall, and 

 caused the others to fall over her. I was behind 

 her, and Rainbow, catching Somerside's quarters 

 with his foot, came down. I was pitched clean 

 out of the saddle and sent spinning over the rails: 

 I picked myself up none the worse. Rainbow 

 broke her neck. Somerside won the Oaks after 

 that. Wells was seriously hurt; it was some 

 time before he got better — two or three weeks. 

 He just got over the accident in time to ride 

 Musjid for the Derby that same year. Ashmall 

 had his collar-bone broken, and he and Wells 

 were taken to the hospital. Neither Cresswell 

 nor Chaloner was much hurt. 



" It was a long time before I had an accident 

 of any moment after that, though I had a 

 ' slip-up ' now and then, but never much the 

 worse of it. It was not until Durham, on 20th 

 July, 1885, I got hurt. I was riding the filly 

 by Blair Athol out of Ambulance. She slipped 

 up just before she got to the end of the rails in 

 the straight. My back must have struck the 

 rails, because part of the rails where I fell was 

 broken. I never saw the rails, but they told me 

 they w^ere broken aftenvards. I was taken off 

 the course in Lord Durham's 'bus to the Three 

 Tuns Hotel, Durham, and lay there about ten 



