SIXTY YEARS 



ON THE TURF 



CHAPTER I 



Early days — A useful reminder — Eogues and Eascals — My 

 first "book" — "Feathers to sell" — I win a "pony" — Mr. 

 Tim Kelly and " Hop, step, and a jump " — I win a " century " 

 — Kelly advises London — Tattersall's Yard on Sundays — 

 Caurouch for the Cesarewitch of 1847 — I leave Ramsgate 

 for London — Sweeps and Lotteries — I draw The Cur — 

 Colonel Peel's Cambridgeshire three (1848) — Small stakes, 

 but good racing — Lenient handicapping : no stakes — Derby 

 and Oaks winners in 100 guineas Plate. 



Everything and each career must have a beginning ; 

 and sometimes the earher the start, and the smaller 

 the scale thereof, the better the result. I am not 

 saying that any share of fortune my portion these 

 past sixty or so years was traceable to juvenile 

 initiation in what proved the business as well as the 

 pleasure of my life ; but it was certainly in favour 

 of gaining soon the learning which comes, and 

 only can come, from experience that before I was 

 fifteen I set out one day with intent to bet on a 

 horse my juvenile judgment suggested held a reason- 



