CONTENTS 



CHAPTER X 



Mr. "Ned" Smith — His financial diiiiculties — A poaching episode — His 

 victim's threat — " Who shot the fox ? " — Margery Daw— Useless for 

 racing — A paddock failure — I give her away — Her subsequent value — 

 She throws See Saw and Ecossais — Extraordinary career of the latter 

 — Doeskin : another "gift horse" — Rocket's trial for the Cesarewitch 

 of 1858— Faith lost — I try to buy Tame Deer — Confidence in Rocket 

 restored — Colonel Forester's opinion — Rocket's victory — Mr. Edward 

 Green — His "averaging" habit— How I purchased Emigrant — Mr. 

 Green has half share — Emigrant's Grand National training — Accident 

 to his jockey, Charlie Boyce — I hedge my monej'^Boyce wins with 

 one arm tied up — Lucas's Repository — Mr. Hodgson forces a fight — 

 The result — Heavy damages claimed — I sell my responsibility — The 

 trial — Baron Martin suggests arbitration — Acceptance of Admiral 

 Rous — His judgment ....... Pp. 114-134 



CHAPTER XI 



Sir Joseph Hawley — Reasons for engaging John Porter as trainer — I sell 

 Sir Joseph The Beacon — His sarcasm about that horse's food — "Was 

 it sawdust ? "—Lord Westmorland — A dispute over my boy Morris — I 

 give way, and beat his lordship — Tom Heartfield — A fine horseman — 

 Vestminster — His trial — I mystify Lord Westmorland — A good haul — 

 Vestminster and tlie Cambridgeshire — A pertinacious "tout" — Strong 

 measures necessary — An ague-stricken " chucker-out "- — My confidence 

 in Vestminster — Mr. Gideon's warning about Cerdagne — Mr. Foy's 

 "little beggar" — The French filly handsomely beaten . Pp. 135-151 



CHAPTER XII 



Eacecourses that were and are not — Thunder at Stamford — How I missed 

 him — Stamford's extinction : reason — Mr. Sam Merry and Davies the 

 Leviathan — Mr. Merry's stratagem — Davies' good humour — Shrews- 

 bury — Mr. John Frail — " Passage of arms " with Mr. Attorney-General 

 Cockburn — Funny things at Shrewsbury — "A New Race" — The 

 getting-home stakes — An undesirable entry — The diflSculty solved — 

 We go for the " undesirable " — An extraordinary race — The sharing of 

 the spoils — Eghara — Mr. James Weatherby loses his watch — Mr. 

 Lefevre's opinion of racecourse thieves' cleverness — The watch again 

 disappears — And again — " For the last time" . . Pp. 152-165 



CHAPTER XIII 



Custance and Fordham — Dr. Shorthouse's frank criticism — " Driving Jack 

 out of Town" — Archer's opinion of Fordham — Macaroni's Derby — Lord 

 Clifden beaten a head — Mr. Oldaker's unfortunate sratement — The 

 serious result to himself — Fordham heart-broken — Mr. William Day 

 "carpeted" Pp. 166-174 



