SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



I am aware that this is not the orthodox way of 

 purchasing blood stock, as I know that, according to 

 the modern school, you should study strains and 

 families of this number and of that. But I never 

 went deeply into such matters, and if I thought a 

 colt or a filly would race I was a buyer. Nor did I 

 pay much heed to elegance of contour so long as the 

 legs were all right ; and when some one said to me 

 of Paul Jones, " What an ugly head he has ! " I 

 thought a sufficient answer was that the horse and 

 not myself had to carry it. 



Both Vision and Victorious progressed nicely at 

 Epsom, and I ran the filly in the Brocklesby Stakes. 

 There was a field of eleven, and with Water Baby 

 and Blackbird the popular fancies, any price could 

 have been had about Vision, who nevertheless, with 

 Perry up, won by half a length from Blackbird, 

 with La Mechante third. In the next week she 

 met this pair in the Little John Plate at Notting- 

 ham, and, despite a 5 lb. penalty, again beat them. 

 The second victory proved her first was no fluke, 

 and clearly she was the sort that could safely be 

 put in a gallop. At Warwick she won the Two 

 Year Old Stakes, and had the prizes been of much 

 value the opening of that season would indeed have 

 been profitable to me. But to the Brocklesby only 

 40 sovs. were added ; to the Little John Plate, 30 ; 



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