SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Admiral approached me with, " Why, you're running 

 another, Hodgman — Victory." " Oh yes ! But he's 

 very bad, and he's only running to give Morris 

 practice." 



I waited till the last moment, and took 1000 to 

 80. I saw Fordham, and said, "I've 1000 to 80, 

 George. You have the odds to a pony." 



Fordham got a nice place on the rails, and making 

 nearly all the running won by a neck from Mr. W. 

 Day's Watcbbox (who had a pull of 21 lb.) and 

 Waldegrave, they dead-heating for second place. 



Later I remarked to Fordham, " George, how 

 came you to make running with all that weight, and 

 in such a field ? " 



"Well, you know — you know — I got a nice place, 

 you know," he answered. " And I was always 

 going easy — always easy — very easy indeed, you 

 know, you know." 



Lord Granville was one of the first to offer his 

 congratulations. I thanked him, but said, " My 

 lord, you may know a deal about politics, but you 



know d d little about betting. You've taken 



5500 to 1000 about my horse, and you ought to 

 have had 12,000 to 1000, and could have got it, my 

 lord, if you had gone the right way to work. By- 

 the-bye, how came you to risk such a stake ? " 



" Oh, Rous told me." 



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