CHAPTER XVI 



A T Headbourne Worthy we had a small but 



/ % fairly useful string besides Dornroschen, 



y %L who was only at the home establishment 

 for a short time before I sent her on to Sam 

 Pickering's establishment at Kennet. Trelaske was 

 the " daddy,'* and he did yeoman service as a trial nag, 

 besides picking up a few nice little races. I won the 

 High Peak welter (for gentlemen riders) on him at 

 Derby. On that occasion I had some doughty 

 opponents, including Arthur Coventry and " Rock." 

 Going to the post, the latter said, ** You (with the 

 accent on the personal pronoun) will win this," and 

 I did, quite comfortably. The race was over the 

 straight mile. I jumped off in front, made all the 

 running, and won by a length. 



Originally Trelaske had belonged to " Charlie " 

 Merry, who chipped me because I had entered the son 

 of The Miser in a two-mile race. 



** Why, when I had him," he sneered, *' he could 

 not stay Rve furlongs ! " 



*' That is exactly the reason why I have put him to 



long distance work," was my cryptic reply, which 



may have sounded rather paradoxical ; but the fact is 



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