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 Fm 

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

 Jidus 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 



