SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



€an know all my business. What stable is Porter 

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" Bill Goater's at Findon." 



" That's the stable," said Sir Joseph emphatically. 

 *' I'll see into the affair." 



A short time after I met Sir Joseph walking with 

 Lady Pigott in Regent Street. He stopped me and 

 said, " Oh, I have engaged Porter. And Pm much 

 obliged to you." The combination, as all know, 

 worked with successful smoothness. 



I had not many dealings with Sir Joseph either in 

 the sale or the purchase of horses. In fact, I can 

 only recall one transaction ; and that took place in 

 1857. In that year Harry Hill won with The 

 Beacon a £50 plate at Newmarket, the race being 

 over the Cesarewitch course. At Shrewsbury later, 

 at our lodgings, a deal of chaff arose as to the worth 

 of the horse named. 



" Will you sell him, Harry ? " I asked. 



"Yes." 



" What do you want ? " 



" Three hundred." 



" It's a deal," I said, and The Beacon became 

 mine. I could make nothing of the horse, with 

 whom it was not a case of improvement following a 

 change of stable. One day Sir Joseph said, " You 

 still have that horse. Beacon ? " 



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