SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



" Yes, I do. But, Fred, I'm told that Dulcibella 

 could draw a cart and beat me." 



" I believe she could, lad," was his answer. 

 ** And be sure you don't lose by her " — a remark 

 that caused me to save my money. A fortnight 

 later Heiress took her chance in the Cambridge- 

 shire, but, as in the Cesarewitch, could only finish 

 third, Mr. Swindell's Weatherbound securing for 

 him an immense stake by a head from Mademoiselle 

 de Chantilly. It was commonly reported that 

 Weatherbound had been tried with Dulcibella ; and 

 most likely this was the case, for William Day and 

 Mr. Swindell were inseparables. 



Heiress, I may add, never won me a race. So I 

 made no bargain over her when I purchased her 

 from Mr. Carew, whose wife I had put on 5000 to 

 nothing for the Cesarewitch. It was in that year 

 (1860) that Mrs. Carew and a lady friend of hers 

 were placed in a very awkward predicament, or, 

 rather, I had better say, put their husbands in one. 

 They hid themselves, one evening, after dinner, in a 

 curtained embrasure of the billiard-room at Bed- 

 dington House (Mr. Carew's home), with an idea of 

 frightening their spouses. But in the meantime 

 Mr. Jonathan Gain and myself had called in for a 

 smoke and a chat, and thinking the ladies were in 

 the drawing-room, the four of us adjourned to the 



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