SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



the bet, and paid over the hundred. I was then, as I 

 have said, keeping a Kst myself, on a minor scale, and 

 next day put Manifold at 40's. To encourage business 

 by, if the race came off as I prognosticated, being 

 talked about I stuck up, so all might see, the following 

 forecast of the Cambridgeshire result : 



MANIFOLD 

 TRUTH 

 AEIOSTO . 

 FAUX PAS . 



That, of course, was my view of the handicap. 

 But it did not coincide with the judge's verdict, 

 which went to Truth, with Ariosto second, Manifold 

 third, and Faux Pas fourth. I may add that though 

 I should have won much money over Manifold, I was 

 no loser by Truth, and as I had also done fairly by 

 Mrs. Taft in the Cesarewitch, there was no reason for 

 complaint. 



On the Good Friday of 1852 Mr. Thornhill, a 

 confectioner in Gracechurch Street, Bill Mundy, 

 and myself went down to Newmarket to meet Mr. 

 Thomas Parr. He had bought from the Duke of 

 Bedford's stable — the horses in which were under 

 the complete control of Admiral Rous — a bay colt, 

 Weathergage, for a trifling sum under Lord Exeter's 

 conditions. He wanted 100 so vs. in order to be 

 able to run him in the Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 



