CHAPTER XV 



Matches — Fashionable forty years ago — A match I lost and 

 won by — Lord Westmorland lays the odds, but hedges — My 

 " old brood mare," Paul Jones ! — Match with Admiral Rous 

 — Mr, " Spectacle " Perry — His sporting ambition — He pre- 

 sents me with Otho, who beats his Tubal Cain — Another 

 match — ilr. Perry satisfied — Sensational betting over a match 

 at Goodwood — Mr. " Teddy " Brayley — His want of judg- 

 ment and obstinacy — Morris's opinion of his Derby horse — 

 Paul Jones's Chester Cup trial with Mariner — Even weights 

 ©r no gallop — The result — Mr. Brayley helps himself — Paul 

 Jones as a yearling and a two-year-old — His Derby and 

 Brighton running — ^Why wrong — I train him myself for the 

 St. Leger — A satisfactory trial — Steel gets me 37,000 to 1000 

 — An unlucky defeat — Fordham's explanation — Mr. Graham's 

 munificence — Inexplicable Cesarewitch running— Butler's 

 folly — An unfortunate cannon — A " certainty " upset. 



Matches, it must be owned, are not very fashionable 

 aowadays. But forty years ago they were a popular 

 diversion, and men would stand out for a pound 

 much as boxers do at present. I was always very 

 partial to match-making, and do not, of the great 

 number in which I was engaged, recall having lost 

 more than three. One of these was with Paul Jones, 

 when a two-year-old. He was pitted against Chivalry 

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