CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIV 



My best horse — Victorious — His unsightly head — I buy him for 125 sovs, 

 — Vision — Her Brocklesby victory — Subsequent successes — Her trial 

 with Victorious — He gives her 2 st. — The defeat of Le Bearnais — Tona 

 Jennings's opinion — The Goodwood trial — The Sweepstakes victory — 

 Admiral Rous's idea — The Nursery success — Lord Granville takes 

 under the odds — Jackson's disgraceful offer — A dead-heat at Wolver- 

 hampton : Cause of same — Shelly feet — Mr. Jackson and the "Short- 

 house " ale — Victor — How purchased — Frozen out at Lincoln — "Not 

 quite like a thoroughbred "—A half-crown for luck — A Royal Hunt 

 Cup track— A Royal Hunt Cup trial — Mr. George Herring drinks 

 champagne and throws "cold water" — Victor's victory — He breaks 

 dov?n in the Cambridgeshire — Sold for an old song — Success at the 

 stud Pp. 175-190 



CHAPTER XV 



Matches — Fashionable forty years ago — A match I lost and won by — Lord 

 Westmorland lays the odds, but hedges — My " old brood mare," Paul 

 Jones ! — Match with Admiral Rous — Mr. " Spectacle " Perry — His 

 sporting ambition — He presents me with Otho, who beats his Tubal 

 Cain — Another match — Mr. Perry satisfied— Sensational betting over 

 a match at Goodwood— Mr. " Teddy " Brayley— His want of judgment 

 and obstinacy — Morris's opinion of his Derby horse — Paul Jones's 

 Chester Cup trial with Mariner — Even weights or no gallop — The 

 result — Mr. Brayley helps himt>elf — Paul Jones as a yearling and a 

 two-year-old — His Derby and Brighton running — Why wrong — I train 

 him myself for the St. Leger — A satisfactory trial — Steel gets me 

 37,000 to 1000 — An unlucky defeat — Fordham's explanation — Mr. 

 Graham's munificence — Inexplicable Cesarewitch running — Butler's 

 folly — An unfortunate cannon — A " certainty " upset . Pp. 191-211 



CHAPTER XVI 



The Duke of Hamilton — He puts me a thousand on Valiant — A "good 

 thing " — The Duke misses a chance — What 1 said to him — His laugh- 

 ing agreement — I buy John Davis of him— The Brighton Stakes run- 

 ning — "Tubby" Morris and Billy Nichol think they "smell a rat" — 

 A drive to Telscombe— John Davis's extraordinary trials — He beats 

 Provider 150 yards — Fordham wishes to ride at 14 lb. overweight — I 

 lose Butler and put up Sammy Mordan — His eccentric disobedience — 

 A Cesarewitch thrown away — I sell John Davis for 19 gs. — The 

 Stewards' Cup — The Duke of Hamilton's Midlothian and Lollypop — 

 His Grace's declaration — His orders to Custance — My orders — I try to 

 buy Sutler Pp. 212-224 



