170 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



ask their glass-case gees to run about 

 five times in a season. " Over-worked/' 

 ''Pitcher taken to the well once too 

 often," "Temper ruined," and so on; but 

 the poor old Epsom-trained selling-steeple- 

 chase plater has to face the music as 

 many times in a fortnight gamely, and 

 get beans, too, for a whole furlong in a 

 " well-timed " finish. 



What a lot of the Newmarket trainers 

 have been cross-country riders of note ! 

 — Jewitt, Marsh, J. Cannon, Ryan, and 

 C. Archer, for example. I am not sure 

 that Ryan carried silk, but I have seen 

 him go tremendously well with the New- 

 market drag and the neighbouring fox 

 and stag hounds. 



I knew Mr. Ryan's son, young Jimmy, 

 very well, and it was indeed sad that he 

 should have been *' called " so early in 

 life, and with a brilliant career in front 



