SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



fortune, as the son of Bran named beat thirty-one 

 opponents, starting second favourite to SurpHce, a 

 great pubhc fancy because of his Leger success. 

 That, however, entailed a 12 lb. penalty, and Lord 

 Clifden's colt ran unplaced. The Cur, to my mind, 

 was a very good horse in a day when good horses 

 abounded. Thus he, in the said Cesare witch, beat 

 Dacia by a length in spite of a disadvantage of 

 3 St. 3 lb.. Colonel Peel's filly carrying 4 st. 13 lb, 

 to his 8 st. 3 lb. Dacia was destined to carry off 

 the Cambridgeshire, for which the Colonel started 

 three — she, Taffrail, and Lola Montez. I was then 

 acquainted with the owner of Orlando, — who got 

 the Derby Stakes in " Running Rein's " year — and 

 on the morning of the Cambridgeshire met him 

 outside the Subscription Rooms at Newmarket. 



" You run three, I understand, Colonel," I said. 



"Yes." 



" Do you make a declaration ? " 

 !i " No. They run on their merits. But I think 

 Dacia is best." 



She won cleverly from her stable companion, 

 Taffrail, with Gaffer Green third, and Lola Montez 

 fourth. The public had seized on Dacia, and though 

 the Colonel could have won with Taffrail, and 

 obtained long odds (she started at 25 to 1), he 

 disdained such a proceeding, which is more, I must 



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